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Responding to the Second Digital Divide
Responding to the Second Digital DividePanel to discuss growing percentage of Americans with advanced online access who have insufficient levels of digital skills (Washington, DC) – New research findings show that the digital divide is expanding, affecting far more than the disconnected—a growing percentage of Americans with advanced online access have insufficient levels of digital skills. Over the past 20 years, libraries—as welcoming institutions to all segments of society, including students, parents, job-seekers and seniors alike—have increased “digital readiness” by offering innovative…
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Campaign Boot Camp 2014: FEC Data Disclosure
The ongoing 2014 Campaign Boot Camp program continues on April 7 with the Federal Election Commission staff providing a refresher on how to find disclosure data on the agency's website, www.fec.gov. The program is free, but registration is required below. The program runs from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. This year's course is timed to take place a week before the filing deadline for the first of this year's quarterly disclosures of candidate contributions and expenditures. The FEC staff will take you through the campaign map tool, the candidate/committee viewer, and the variety of information in the…
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Obamacare After the Exchanges
Obamacare After the ExchangesHow the ACA will define health policy, business in 2014 and beyond Washington, DC – An expert panel of regulators, industry voices and advocates will debate and discuss what is still to come under national health reform — and what should happen next. While the Affordable Care Act exchanges are (mostly) up and running, many issues from Medicaid expansion to the Health Insurance Tax and beyond will be in focus in Congress, in the states and on the campaign trail in 2014 and 2016. Panelists:• Joel Ario led Obama administration development of health insurance…
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Senator Tom Harkin
Note: This livestream is audio-only At a Newsmakers press conference at the National Press Club on Thursday, January 30th, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, will unveil bold new legislation to tackle the growing retirement crisis and rebuild the private pension system. The current retirement income deficit has reached at least $6.6 trillion—leaving many Americans vastly unprepared for retirement—and 75 million Americans do not have a retirement plan. Half of all Americans have less than $10,000 in savings. The Universal,…
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FBI Agents to discuss National Security Issues
FBI Agents to Discuss Sequestration, Furlough Impacts On Law Enforcement, National Security Issues Washington, DC – FBI agents will discuss how sequestration’s mandated budget cuts are affecting daily FBI operations and hampering criminal and national security investigations, as well as the risks associated with additional budget cuts and furloughs expected early next year, at a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on Wednesday, December 4. Leaders of the FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) will also update the group’s recent report Voices from the Field: FBI Agent Accounts of the Real…
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UN Human Rights Investigators to Discuss N. Korea Violations
UN Human Rights Investigators to Discuss N. Korea Violations At National Press Club Newsmaker News Conference Washington, DC – The three members of the UN Human Rights Council Commission of Inquiry (COI) established last March to investigate widespread violations of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will discuss concerns raised by their probe at a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on Friday, November 1. Violations the COI is investigating are those related to the right to food, prison camps, torture and inhuman treatment, arbitrary detention,…
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Finding Common Ground with the NRA on Gun Control
Finding Common Ground with the NRA on Gun Control Washington, DC – Paul Helmke – former President & CEO of the Brady Campaign/Center to Prevent Gun Violence, former Republican Mayor of Fort Wayne, IN, former GOP nominee for U.S. Senate and currently a professor at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs – will address the political impasse over national efforts to reduce gun violence at a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on Friday, October 18. After the Newtown massacre last December, many expected some progress at the national level on efforts to…
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How to Write a Book
Join a book agent and four club members/book authors to discuss how to pitch and write a book at a program at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, in a program co-sponsored by the Professional Development Committee, Freelance Committee and National Press Club Journalism Institute. Book agent Deborah Grosvenor and authors Tom Dunkel, Alison Fitzgerald, Eleanor Herman and Tom Young, all of them members of the Club, will talk about their experiences and offer tips. Former Club President Jonathan D. Salant, chair of the Professional Development Committee, will…
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Floyd Abrams Book Event
National Press Club to Host First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams As U.S. prosecutors increasingly monitor reporters to get to the bottom of leaks, the National Press Club’s Press Freedom Committee will host leading First Amendment attorney and press-freedom advocate Floyd Abrams, who will discuss these issues and his new book. Abrams, a senior partner in Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, has been at the forefront of nearly every major press-freedom and free-speech case in the last 40 years—from the Pentagon papers in 1971 to the Citizens United case in 2010. His new book, “Friend of the…
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On the 30th Anniversary of "A Nation at Risk," Kids Still at Risk
On the 30th Anniversary of “A Nation at Risk,” Kids Still at RiskLeading Educators Call for New Direction for Education ReformFocused on the “Opportunity Gap” Professor Kevin Welner, University of ColoradoDirector, National Educational Policy Center Professor Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford UniversityCo-Director, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education John JacksonPresident, Schott Foundation On the 30th anniversary of the landmark education reform report A Nation at Risk, which spawned a decades-long focus on closing the academic “achievement gap” between low-income and minority…
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