CPA News Releases and Media Advisories

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Affirmative Action

• Bush vs. Bush on Affirmative Action – March 22, 2000

• Center for Policy Alternatives to Hold Forum on Women and Affirmative Action – September 28, 1998

• Mother’s Day 1999 Finds 63% of Mothers of Small Children in the Workforce Caregiving Still Goes Largely Unrecognized: CPA Issues State-by-State Data – May 3, 1999

• New Partnership Will Increase Availability of Child Care – December 17, 1998

• Bottom Line From Youth Voters to Politicians: Discuss Issues We Care About and We Will Vote – February 14, 1997

• Why Young People Didn’t Vote in the November 1996 Elections – February 10, 1997

• Tale of Two Sermons – June 26, 2007

• HUGE INCREASE IN PROGRESSIVE VICTORIES IN THE STATES – May 4, 2007

• Universal Solutions – August 6, 2006

• Reclaiming ‘Freedom’ – July 11, 2006

• Progressive Values 101 – June 8, 2006

• Debating Health Care, Finally – March 7, 2006

• Year-End Roundup: 2005 Policy Action in the States – January 6, 2006

• Report Finds Progressive Victories in the States – August 9, 2005

• Rethinking Progressive Values – June 1, 2005

• States Lead on Minimum Wage — As Congress stumbles, progressives lead in the states – May 11, 2005

• “Hope is in the States” — A Credible Claim by Progressives? – May 1, 2005

• Legislative Backlash in Maryland Underscores Progressive Trend Across the States – April 21, 2005

• Progressive Vision from the States – February 14, 2005

• In 2004, Progressives Made Progress in the States – December 21, 2004

• Hope is in the States – November 5, 2004

• Policy Center Issues a ﾓProgressive Agendaﾔ for the States – January 14, 2003

• CPA Editorial: Homeland Security Means Ensuring Economic Security of Unemployed Workers – February 4, 2002

• State Legislators and Activists from 40 States Organize Progressive Policy Solutions in Response to the National Crisis – December 5, 2001

• New CEO Selected for Leading Center on Progressive State Policy and Leadership Development – October 4, 2001

• CPA Responds to the September 11 Attack – September 28, 2001

• Updates on Prescription Drugs and Equal Pay – April 25, 2001

• Beaudry Named Executive Vice President for Policy at CPA; Mosle Named Vice President for Women’s Programs – September 15, 1998

• CPA Receives $1.6 Million in W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Health Care Contract – August 13, 1998

• The Center for Policy Alternatives Receives Grant of $3.69 Million from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to Develop State Legislative Leadership – July 29, 1997

• CPA Announces New VP, Women’s Program Director, Board Members – December 20, 1996

• Cipro Pricing Debate Reveals What States Knew All Along – October 26, 2001

• President Bush’s Prescription Drug Discount Card Just Window Dressing – July 11, 2001

• States Poised to Lower Prescription Drug Prices As First Circuit Court of Appeals Rules Against PhRMA – May 17, 2001

• Multi-State Effort To Lower Prescription Drug Prices – June 22, 2000

• The Sale and Conversion of Not-for-Profit Hospitals Issue Forum for State Legislators, April 16, 1998 – April 13, 1998

• Putting Federal Housing Dollars to Work in Low-Income Communities: CPA Housing Forum to be Held in Corpus Christi, November 16-17 – November 12, 1998

• State Legislators from Around the Region Organize Progressive Policy Solutions at Midwest Summit – Congressman Bart Stupak Delivers Keynote Address on – June 27, 2001

• October 26-27 Student Issue Forum in Greensboro Aims To Engage African-American Youth In Shaping Community Policy – October 22, 1998

• October 12-13 Student Issue Forum in Atlanta Aims To Engage African-American Youth In Shaping Community Policy – October 9, 1998

• State Expands Summer Food Service for North Carolina Children; Legislators Launch Campaign for Increased Participation – June 12, 1998

• Texas Legislators, Community Activists to Meet in San Antonio with Counterparts from Southeast, Southwest States, May 17-19 – May 12, 1998

• CPA President Linda Tarr-Whelan To Speak On Priorities and Accomplishments Of Women Grassroots Leaders – November 11, 1997

• Panel To Discuss Electric Utility Deregulation Effects On States And Low-Income Communities – October 29, 1997

• Forty-Six ‘Leaders for the Future’ Selected: CPA Announces Two 1997-98 Classes of Flemming Fellows – October 20, 1997

• Gore, Campbell, Holden and Morella to be Honored at CPA’s 1997 Leadership Awards Celebration, Thursday, May 29 – May 15, 1997

• SEPLF Houston Conference: Environmental Cleanup An Important Tool to Combat Joblessness and Environmental Racism – May 2, 1997

• Vermont Policy, Government and Education Leaders Gather to Build Telecommunications Initiatives in Vermont Schools – October 28, 1996

• Report Finds Progress in the States – July 16, 2003

• Center for Policy Alternatives’ December 11-12 Summit on the States – December 8, 1998

• Center for Policy Alternatives Convenes December 11-12 Summit on the States as 1999 State Legislatures Prepare to Open – December 3, 1998

• Statement by Linda Tarr-Whelan, President and CEO of the Center for Policy Alternatives, On the $190 million Federal Welfare-to-Work Grant to the Stat – July 21, 1998

• States Are Moving Equal Pay Legislation — Equal pay bills move toward passage in 11 states – April 2, 2001

• Wage Gap Not Just a Matter of Nickels and Dimes – February 6, 2001

• Does “W” Really Stand for Women? Gore vs. Bush — Who Captured the Women’s Vote? Center for Policy Alternatives Releases Post-Election Analysis – November 10, 2000

• Health Care, Social Security, Top Georgia Women’s Concerns – Center for Policy Alternatives and Lifetime Television’s Pre-Election Poll Released by At – November 2, 2000

• Connecticut Women’s Voices 2000: State Poll Paints Complex Picture of Women’s Concerns and Policy Priorities for the Economy – October 26, 2000

• Colorado Women’s Agenda, Center for Policy Alternatives and Lifetime Televison’s Statewide Poll, Women’s Voices 2000, Paints New, In-Depth and Complex – October 18, 2000

• Center for Policy Alternatives & Lifetime Television Unveil Women’s Voices 2000: In-Depth National Poll of Women Voters – September 27, 2000

• Women Across the Country Believe the Promise of the New Economy Has Not Yet Delivered for Women and Their Families – July 31, 2000

• The Center for Policy Alternatives & Lifetime Television Unveil Results of ﾓWomenﾒs Voices 2000ﾔ Focus Groups, Part of Most Comprehensive Polling Proj – July 27, 2000

• States Leading the Way For Progress on Women’s Economic Issues – June 1, 2000

• Assessing U.S. Women’s Economic Progress Since 1995 – May 15, 2000

• Center for Policy Alternatives Launches Historic Polling Project: Women’s Voices 2000 – April 28, 2000

• Women Entrepreneurs: An Untapped Sector for State Economic Growth – February 16, 2000

• National Movement Launched To Secure America’s Economic Future – February 3, 2000

• Downing Street Summit: Trans-Atlantic Statement of Principles – November 15, 1999

• Government leaders, economists and academic specialists from the United States and the United Kingdom will meet at 11 Downing Street to discuss a new – November 8, 1999

• Women Earn Seventy-Four Cents for Every Dollar Men Earn; States Take Action to Close the Pay Gap – February 24, 1999

• A Challenge To Secure Americaﾒs Economic Future – January 14, 1999

• New Report Shows Women-Owned Businesses Are Fastest Growing Segment of the Economy – October 13, 1998

• Labor Day Finds 61 Million Women At Work;Women Are Key to Future Economic Growth – September 1, 1998

• Women Grassroots Leaders to Meet in Portland, July 31-August 2 to Forge Plans to Secure America’s Economic Future – July 28, 1998

• Legislators from 14 Western States Map Legislative Action to Expand Women’s Economic Power; CPA Convenes May 29-31 Community Policy Forum – May 22, 1998

• Women Leaders From Across the U.S. Shape Action Plan to Tap Women’s Economic Power – April 2, 1998

• New Blueprint for Action to be Presented at White House, Congressional Events. America’s Economic Agenda: Women’s Voices for Solutions, April – April 1, 1998

• Women Community Activists Build New Economic Agenda, July 17-22, 1997 – July 15, 1997

• Women Leaders From Across U.S. To Plan National Economic Strategy In Washington, April 3-5, 1997 – April 1, 1997

• Women’s Economic Leadership Summit At The White House, April 3-5, 1997 – March 21, 1997

• Legislation to Stop Insurance Discrimination Against Victims of Domestic Violence to Be Introduced in California, Georgia, Illinois, New Mexico and – January 30, 1997

• Women Lead U.S. Micro-Enterprise Boom, Fuel National Economic Growth – January 29, 1997