by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Dec 11, 2019 | News
The capacity of state environmental agencies to assess and enforce environmental protection policies is being diminished by funding and staff cuts, according to a report published Dec. 5 by the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP). The D.C.-based nonprofit, launched...
by Josef Kuhn | Oct 27, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) As the deadline for a federal deficit-reduction plan looms, religious communities are holding prayer vigils, phoning politicians and organizing letter campaigns in a bid to protect safety net programs for the poor. The national “Faithful Budget...
by Yonat Shimron and Adelle Banks | Aug 10, 2011 | News
RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) In the two months since North Carolina’s legislature laid off most of its prison chaplains, Betty Brown, director of prison chaplaincy services, has been crisscrossing the state searching for volunteers who can attend to the religious needs of...
by David Gibson | Jul 28, 2011 | News
(RNS) The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops are urging the GOP-led House to reject a cuts-only approach to the budget as Washington tries to avert an unprecedented government default on its multi-trillion-dollar debts. “A just framework for future budgets cannot rely on...
by Adelle Banks | Jul 22, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) President Obama agrees with religious officials’ concerns about protecting the poor as Washington debates the nation’s debt ceiling crisis, according to leaders who met with him this week. A delegation representing Catholic and Protestant...
