Cal 3 Initiative Approved for Statewide Ballot in November

June 13, 2018

SACRAMENTO, California, June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Citizens for Cal 3 (cal3.com) today announced their ballot initiative was approved for inclusion on the statewide election this November. This qualification by the California State Office of Elections gives Californians an unprecedented opportunity to direct a more promising future for their communities. The Cal 3 ballot initiative will give all Californians a vote to create three states from the existing one.

“This milestone is a testament to the energized spirit of Californians wanting to create a better future for themselves and their communities,” Citizens for Cal 3 spokesperson Peggy Grande said. “This November, all Californians have the opportunity to send the message they are ready for solutions to our most pressing state issues in failing education, crumbling infrastructure, sky-high taxes and stagnation in state government.”

The Cal 3 initiative gathered and submitted to the California Secretary of State office more than double the required signatures needed to qualify for the ballot, representing citizens who supported the opportunity to declare their desire for a new direction. Cal 3 qualified for the ballot with more than the required number of signatures, representing Californians from all 58 counties.

“The growing discontent with the ineffectiveness of the current state government system is apparent with the success of this first step,” Grande said. “All Californians deserve more from their state, and with Cal 3, more regional responsiveness and more meaningful results will create a promising future for everyone.”

Last month, a new analysis from U.S. News & World Report and McKinsey’s “Leading States Index” quantified Californians’ enthusiasm for a change with Cal 3, ranking California an unacceptable 50th out of 50 U.S. states in “Quality of Life” and near the bottom of the nation in critical areas like K-12 Education, Road Quality, Tax Burden and Long-Term Fiscal Stability.

“The California state government isn’t too big to fail, because it is already failing its citizens in so many crucial ways,” Grande said. “The reality is that for an overmatched, overstretched and overwrought state-government structure, it is too big to succeed. Californians deserve a better future.”

Once approved by voters through the ballot this November, the Cal 3 initiative would move forward to the U.S. Congress and, ultimately, the President of the United States for ratification.

For more information, visit Cal3.com, Cal 3 on Facebook, @votecal3 on Twitter and Instagram, and use the hashtag #votecal3

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Fintech and PDI Enter Into a Strategic Alliance

June 13, 2018

TAMPA, Fla., June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Fintech, the leading solutions provider for beverage alcohol management, and regulatory information resource, has partnered with PDI, a leading provider of enterprise management software for the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale markets. This unprecedented collaboration between two leaders in separate industries results in a cooperative product offering for convenience store owners and operators. This agreement will deliver a comprehensive software solution that will provide a secure, accurate, and hassle-free way to pay alcohol deliveries electronically, while ensuring compliance, so retailers can focus on their customers.

The Fintech and PDI partnership will solve a complex issue facing many convenience store chains and single site operators – visibility and complete control of alcohol spend. This alliance, and trusted partnership, will continue to position both Fintech and PDI as industry pioneers. With more than 500,000 alcohol business relationships managed by Fintech, this strategic partnership is a natural fit to support and resolve this industry challenge.

“PDI prides itself on listening to customers and delivering products and services that effectively address the challenges they face every day,” said Jimmy Frangis, CEO, PDI. “Over our 35-year history, we’ve partnered with leading companies to bring valuable solutions to the market, and we are proud to continue helping customers transform their business by building this strategic partnership with Fintech.”

As an established pioneer of electronic beverage alcohol payments, Fintech has been a strong industry advocate for decades and shares PDI’s passion for customer success by offering payment solutions that maximize margins, improve efficiency, and are easy to use.

“We will continue to anticipate the needs of our clients by partnering with other industry leaders to develop products that will increase client profitability. We know we have found a trusted partner in PDI who will help us to deliver these results,” said Scott Riley, Fintech’s CEO.

About PDI

PDI (www.pdisoftware.com) helps convenience store retailers and petroleum wholesale marketers worldwide thrive in a digital economy with enterprise management software. Over 1,200 customers operating more than 100,000 locations trust PDI to optimize their entire operations whether they are a single site, multi-site, dealer or a franchise operator. PDI’s enterprise software, wholesale and logistics management software solutions and retail back office systems have been designed around the evolving needs of customers for more than 30 years. We reimagine enterprise management to help our customers transform their business and deliver exceptional experiences.

About Fintech

Fintech, the leading solutions provider for beverage alcohol management, and regulatory information resource, offers a OneSource® solution with a suite of profit-building products and services for alcohol distributors and retailers.

With decades of industry experience offering unwavering dependability and trust, Fintech empowers users with information to increase margins and maximize operating efficiencies within their beverage alcohol category. By anticipating client needs, nurturing relationships, and growing partnerships within the industry, Fintech continues to deliver cutting-edge, strategic solutions that range from purchase order, reconciliation, and data reporting, to pricing and promotion communication, compliance adherence, and regulatory resource connectivity.

Fintech manages over 500,000 industry relationships and services more than 3,400 distributors nationwide, adding hundreds of clients every month. For more information on how Fintech can better your business, visit www.fintech.net and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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Better Care and Shorter Wait Times for Montefiore Patients

June 13, 2018

NEW YORK, June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Bronx and Westchester residents are more satisfied with their primary care visits, and are waiting less time to see their doctors than ever before. The accolades are tied to a new designation from the National Committee on Quality Assurance, which has certified Montefiore Medical Group practices as level 3 patient centered medical homes. This is one of the nation’s highest designations for primary care quality, patient satisfaction and convenience.

“Too often, primary care is seen as an episodic medical visit, meaning a patient will only come in when he or she is sick, but we have a different approach,” said Sybil Hodgson, M.D., regional director, Montefiore Medical Group. “Our goal is to provide full health and wellness resources to our patients. This includes building relationships and getting a sense of barriers that could impede access to consistent healthcare.”

Montefiore’s quest to surpass national care standards begins with teams of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, nutritionists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and administrative staff working together to identify gaps in patient flow and areas for improvement. They review “real-time” data to see how staff can be most productive, and bring in patient advisors so all perspectives are reflected in improvements.

“They take each patient’s care personally,” said Paula Gonzalez, Bronx resident and founder of Miss Gunday’s Foundation, a local nonprofit organization. Gonzalez, who goes to Montefiore for her care, and for the care of her five children says, “You go in, you get undivided attention –and you truly feel taken care of.”

Gonzalez emphasizes that the care is outstanding, but providers are also focused on improving experiences in the waiting area as well. Over time, Gonzalez was delighted to see a new waiting room for children, like her son, who is autistic, and is sensitive to noise. While speaking with a nurse, she observed that the seats are even more comfortable. But most important of all, there is an average 10 percent reduction in arrival to departure from appointments. In some centers that is a savings of 40 minutes.

The population Montefiore Medical Group serves is one of the most diverse and socioeconomically vulnerable in the country. In 2017, there were approximately 900,000 patient visits.

“We’re addressing challenges unique to our community in new ways,” said Namita Azad, MPH, MS, transformation manager, Montefiore. “We have onsite psychologists to see kids during their regular pediatric visits, and social workers are available for our adult patients, making access to the right care team easier. This strategy creates care teams that can manage associated stigmas and enables us to diagnose and treat conditions like depression and anxiety earlier, so we are improving the quality of care we provide.”

Montefiore also screens for social determinants of health, like housing, access to healthy food, and employment. Looking at the “whole patient” helps doctors establish thorough care plans, and adds insights into patients’ medical records.

“Last year, we began to screen our patients for stress from inconsistent access to food and housing, said Asif Ansari, M.D., regional director, Montefiore Medical Group. “Now, if we know if a patient with diabetes does not have regular access to a refrigerator, we’ll talk more about different medication and storage options, rather than just prescribing insulin, which needs to be kept cool. It is about caring for each person and knowing what’s going on in their life. That requires more than just access to a healthcare provider.”

This attention to detail, has led to significant improvements in vaccination rates, including a 21 percent improvement in HPV vaccinations and a 9 percent increase in vaccines that can help prevent pneumonia.

Montefiore Medical Group primary and specialty care sites which celebrated 50 years of primary care transformation in 2017, are located throughout the Bronx and Westchester. Each offers onsite laboratory services and extended business hours.

The National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) is a national driver in improving healthcare in our country. More than 12,000 practices have a level of recognition by the NCQA, with only a select group achieving PCMH level 3 designations.

About Montefiore Health System
Montefiore Health System is one of New York’s premier academic health systems and is a recognized leader in providing exceptional quality and personalized, accountable care to approximately three million people in communities across the Bronx, Westchester and the Hudson Valley. It is comprised of 11 hospitals, including the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Burke Rehabilitation Hospital and close to 200 outpatient care sites. The advanced clinical and translational research at its medical school, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, directly informs patient care and improves outcomes. From the Montefiore-Einstein Centers of Excellence in cancer, cardiology and vascular care, pediatrics, and transplantation, to its preeminent school-based health program, Montefiore is a fully integrated healthcare delivery system providing coordinated, comprehensive care to patients and their families. For more information please visit www.montefiore.org. Follow us on Twitter and view us on Facebook and YouTube.

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Battle of the Sexes: How Millennials’ Financial Attitudes, Habits Differ by Gender

June 13, 2018

PITTSBURGH, June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — As the saying goes, “men are from Mars, women are from Venus.” But when it comes to how each sex approaches their finances, the two groups might as well be from different universes, according to findings from the recent PNC Investments Millennials & Investing Survey.

Compared to their male counterparts, female millennials generally report being much more risk-averse, skeptical of alternative investments – including cryptocurrencies and peer-to-peer lending – and have, on average, only saved about two-thirds as much money for retirement as their male peers.

When comparing how millennials invest, the study finds men have greater appetites for higher-risk investing avenues. Fourteen percent of millennial men report that they “embrace” risk – double the number of female millennials reporting similar sentiment.

“One of the foundational aspects of any financial plan is to determine your overall risk tolerance, and for members of the younger generation, risk can be healthy,” said Rich Ramassini, CFP, senior vice president and director of strategy and sales performance for PNC Investments. “People’s appetite for risk is often not on par with how much risk they can actually handle. Increasing your financial knowledge can help you determine whether you are taking on the right amount of risk.”

Though parents of female millennials started educating their daughters about saving earlier than parents of male millennials (age 11.6 for females vs. 12.7 for males), more female millennials than male millennials admit they are not as confident in their financial management skills.

According to PNC’s study, male millennials are more likely to rely on themselves and knowledge they attain through media and internet sources. In fact, male millennials are twice as likely as their female cohorts to consume content from recognized national media outlets.

Millennials’ retirement savings habits

Forty-six percent of female millennials contribute 6 or more percent of their income toward retirement, compared to 57 percent of male millennials, the survey found.

“Millennials now represent the largest portion of the workforce in the country, and most members of the generation have decades to go before they retire. Because millennials have time on their side, they should make investing for retirement a priority early on in their career,” Ramassini said. “One of the best ways to stay ahead of inflation and help set yourself up for a successful retirement is to invest your money in a diversified portfolio designed to achieve long-term goals.”

To that point, the survey also explores the amount each group has in investable assets. Among respondents, 29 percent of female millennials report having between $1,000 – $9,999 in investable assets, compared to 17 percent of men. At the same time, 46 percent of male millennials report having $50,000 or more in investable assets, whereas only 32 percent of female millennials report the same.

However, only 28 percent of millennials report having a solid understanding of how to successfully invest their money.

Millennials’ employment rates and confidence levels

Approximately eight out of 10 millennials say they have full-time jobs (83 percent of men and 78 percent of women). Though the demographic has a high rate of employment, a relatively small percentage of respondents from both sexes agree they feel in control of their financial well-being (32 percent of women compared with 43 percent of men), and even fewer are confident they’re saving enough for the future (26 percent of women compared with 40 percent of men).

“It’s critical that both female and male millennials take actionable steps – including making concerted efforts to save for retirement, participating in the markets and building a solid emergency fund – to ensure their future is not in jeopardy,” Ramassini said. “Given the findings of this survey, we encourage millennials to seek assistance from qualified financial advisors who can help make sure they are on the path to securing a strong financial future.”

PNC Investments LLC is a member of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC). PNC is one of the largest diversified financial services institutions in the United States, organized around its customers and communities for strong relationships and local delivery of retail and business banking including a full range of lending products; specialized services for corporations and government entities, including corporate banking, real estate finance and asset-based lending; wealth management and asset management. For information about PNC, visit www.pnc.com.

Survey Methodology
The Millennials & Investing Survey was commissioned by PNC Investments to identify attitudes and behaviors of millennials. The study was conducted online between Jan. 16-25, 2018 among a cross section of millennials age 21 to 35 with self-reported investable assets of $5,000 or more or those who have a qualified retirement plan (401(k), 403(b)) and at least $1,000 in investable assets. Survey results are balanced in accordance of the US Census population distribution for age and gender to ensure representativeness. No weighting was required.

The survey was designed by Chadwick Martin Bailey, a market research firm specializing in custom research.

This report has been prepared for general informational purposes only and is not intended as specific advice or recommendations. Information has been gathered from third party sources and has not been independently verified or accepted by The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. PNC makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or completeness of the information, assumptions, analyses or conclusions presented in the report. PNC cannot be held responsible for any errors or misrepresentations contained in the report or in the information gathered from third party sources. Any reliance upon the information provided in the report is solely and exclusively at your own risk.

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Securities products, brokerage services and managed account advisory services are offered by PNC Investments LLC, a registered broker-dealer and a registered investment adviser and member FINRA and SIPC. Annuities and other insurance products are offered through PNC Insurance Services, LLC, a licensed insurance agency.

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(Español) La presentadora Natalia Denegri de MegaTV presenta el galardonado cortometraje “Hope”, sobre el Huracán María

June 12, 2018

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EmployBridge Makes Significant Strides in Addressing American Skills Gap

June 12, 2018

ATLANTA, June 12, 2018 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Reaching an important milestone in helping close the skills gap in America’s workforce, EmployBridge today announced today that its Better WorkLife Academy has enrolled more than 10,000 participants since launching in August 2017. In partnership with online learning and skills training leader Penn Foster, EmployBridge’s Better WorkLife Academy offers the company’s contingent employees a wide range of career-focused courses, all available at no cost to them.

“We saw the growing skills gap crisis in our country, and we decided to take action and seek out effective ways to help close it,” said EmployBridge CEO Tom Bickes. “We’re making significant investments in our Better WorkLife Academy in order to help our associates improve their skills and career prospects, while building a stronger workforce for employers. The rapid enrollment growth we’ve experienced clearly shows that we’re providing a much-needed service.”

Since launching Better WorkLife Academy across its specialty workforce divisions, EmployBridge has reached the following milestones:

More than 10,000 total course enrollments (10,307)
Averaging 1,000 enrollees per month
2018 course completions have already doubled 2017 totals

California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Texas have been the top five states for participation, with the most popular courses including MS Office, Administrative Assistant and Bookkeeping. So far in 2018, associates in EmployBridge’s manufacturing (ResourceMFG) and logistics (ProLogistix) divisions have completed the most courses.

Addressing the Real Skills Needs of Workers

Aware of a potential disconnect between the shortage of skills widely-discussed in today’s dynamic labor environment versus what workers may truly need to enhance their skills, EmployBridge took a unique approach to building the coursework available through its Better WorkLife Academy.

After conducting an extensive workforce survey to determine the scope and substance of desired course offerings, EmployBridge worked alongside Penn Foster to customize course content to meet the specific needs of enrollees.

“As a staffing partner to nearly 10,000 clients, we’re keenly aware of the skilled talent shortage American businesses face every day,” said Brian Devine, EmployBridge Senior Vice President. “We believe our Better WorkLife Academy will not only help alleviate those challenges for our clients but also improve workers’ skills, increase their pay and ultimately provide a better work life, just as the academy’s name promises.”

About EmployBridge

As workforce specialists, EmployBridge provides value-added workforce solutions and job opportunities through focused specialty divisions including ResourceMFG, ProLogistix, ProDrivers, Select, RemX, Westaff and Remedy. Combining the advantages of national scale, in-depth local market knowledge, industry-specific expertise, and powerful recruiting and retention tools, EmployBridge is recognized by Staffing Industry Analysts as America’s largest industrial staffing firm. The company puts more than 85,000 people to work each week across a network of 500+ offices in 48 states and Canada. In 2017, EmployBridge provided more than 164 million work hours to 10,000 clients, generating more than $3 billion in revenue and achieving satisfaction ratings of 97 percent for clients and 98 percent for contingent workers. The company is also helping close the skills gap in America’s supply chain by providing free, career-focused skills development to its associates through the firm’s Better WorkLife Academy. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.employbridge.com.

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Labor Commissioner’s Office Cites Cheesecake Factory, Janitorial Contractors More Than $4.5 Million for Wage Theft Violations

June 12, 2018

SAN DIEGO, June 11, 2018 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — The Labor Commissioner’s Office has found Cheesecake Factory Restaurants, Inc. liable in a $4.57 million wage theft case that underpaid 559 janitorial workers managed by Magic Touch Commercial Cleaning. Americlean Janitorial Services Corp., the Cheesecake Factory’s janitorial contractor that subcontracted the work to Magic Touch Commercial Cleaning, is also liable for the wage theft, which occurred at eight locations in Orange and San Diego counties.

The affected workers are due $3.94 million in minimum wages, overtime, liquidated damages, waiting time penalties and meal and rest period premiums.

“This case illustrates common wage theft practices in the janitorial industry, where businesses have contracted and subcontracted to avoid responsibility for ensuring workers are paid what they are owed,” said Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su. “Client businesses can no longer shield themselves from liability for wage theft through multiple layers of contracts. Our enforcement benefits not only the workers who deserve to be paid, but also legitimate janitorial businesses that are underbid by wage thieves.”

Investigators found that the janitorial workers began their shifts around midnight and worked until morning without proper meal or rest break periods. After working for eight hours, the Magic Touch workers were not released until Cheesecake Factory kitchen managers conducted walkthroughs to review their work. These walkthroughs would frequently lead to additional tasks that the janitorial workers had to complete before they were released for the day. This resulted in each worker logging up to 10 hours of unpaid overtime each week.

The Cheesecake Factory locations investigated include:

Brea Mall Way, Brea
Spectrum Center Drive, Irvine
Edinger Avenue, Huntington Beach
Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach
The Shops at Mission Viejo, Mission Viejo
Via Rancho Parkway, Escondido
Friars Road, San Diego
Harbor Drive, San Diego

Magic Touch Commercial Cleaning owner Zulma Villegas must pay $3,936,359 to the workers for unpaid minimum wages and overtime, liquidated damages, waiting time penalties and meal and rest period violations. The citations also include $632,750 for failure to provide properly itemized pay stubs and other civil penalties. During the Labor Commissioner’s investigation which began in December 2016, Villegas changed her business name and began operating as Z’s Commercial Quality Cleaning. Both businesses are subject to the citations.

Citations against the Cheesecake Factory Restaurants, Inc. and Americlean Janitorial Services Corp. DBA Allied National Services for $4,206,351 were issued under Assembly Bill 1897 (California Labor Code Section 2810.3), a law signed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in 2014, which took effect on January 1, 2015.

The law holds client employers that obtain labor from a subcontractor responsible for their workplace violations. A client employer may be liable for the subcontractor’s owed wages, damages and penalties, as well as workers’ compensation violations.

Janitorial service companies operating in California are also required to register with the Labor Commissioner’s Office by July 1 under the Property Services Workers Protection Act, a new law that aims to protect workers in the janitorial industry.

Workers who cooperated in the investigation were represented by the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund, a janitorial industry watchdog organization based in Los Angeles. The investigation was initiated after the Labor Commissioner’s Office received a report of wage theft from the Employee Rights Center in San Diego, a non-profit group that assists low-wage workers without union representation.

Enforcement investigations typically include a payroll audit of the previous three years to determine minimum wage, overtime and other labor law violations, and calculate payments owed and penalties due.

When workers are paid less than minimum wage, they are entitled to liquidated damages that equal the amount of underpaid wages plus interest. Waiting time penalties are imposed when the employer intentionally fails to pay all wages due to the employee at the time of separation. This penalty is calculated by taking the employee’s daily rate of pay and multiplying it by the number of days the employee was not paid, up to a maximum of 30 days.

Civil penalties collected are transferred to the State’s General Fund as required by law.

The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, or the Labor Commissioner’s Office, is the division within the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) with wide-ranging enforcement responsibilities including adjudicating wage claims, inspecting workplaces for wage and hour violations, investigating retaliation complaints and educating the public on labor laws.

In 2014, Labor Commissioner Su launched the Wage Theft is a Crime multilingual public awareness campaign. The campaign defines wage theft and informs workers of their rights and the resources available to them to recover unpaid wages or report other labor law violations.

Employees with work-related questions or complaints may contact DIR’s Call Center in English or Spanish at 844-LABOR-DIR (844-522-6734).

Members of the press may contact Erika Monterroza or Luke Brown at (510) 286-1161, and are encouraged to subscribe to get email alerts on DIR’s press releases or other departmental updates.

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The California Department of Industrial Relations, established in 1927, protects and improves the health, safety, and economic well-being of over 18 million wage earners, and helps their employers comply with state labor laws. DIR is housed within the Labor & Workforce Development Agency. For general inquiries, contact DIR’s Call Center at 844-LABOR-DIR (844-522-6734) for help in locating the appropriate division or program in our department.

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H&M Donates $200,000 To San Jorge Children’s Foundation

June 12, 2018

NEW YORK, June 12, 2018 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — In honor of the reopening of its location at The Mall of San Juan, H&M is proud to make a $200,000 donation to San Jorge Children’s Foundation.

In anticipation of the June 7th reopening of its location at The Mall of San Juan, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, H&M supported the local community through San Jorge Children’s Foundation. H&M first partnered with nonprofit GLAM4GOOD and donated over 2,000 articles of clothing for a free pop up shop held at San Jorge Children’s Hospital on May 23rd for patients and their families, as well as doctors and nurses of the hospital. Building upon this initial outreach, sale proceeds from both Puerto Rican H&M locations during June 7th -10th were donated to San Jorge Children’s Foundation, amounting to a donation of $200,000.

“We are so thrilled to help the local community in Puerto Rico with this donation to San Jorge Children’s Foundation,” said Daniel Kulle, North American President of H&M. “We are also happy to be reopening our first location on the island for our customers and employees.”

H&M opened its first location in Puerto Rico at The Mall of San Juan on June 9th, 2016 and its second location at Plaza del Sol in Bayamón on September 1st of the same year. The company currently employs approximately 50 people on the island of Puerto Rico and is proud to support the local community.

The GLAM4GOOD Foundation is a non-profit organization that creates and celebrates social impact and empowerment through beauty and style. The foundation partners with non-profits, media outlets and fashion and beauty brands to provide life-changing makeovers, clothing giveaways and confidence-bolstering fashion and beauty initiatives for everyday heroes and people in need.

San Jorge Children’s Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the health and welfare of children in Puerto Rico with the aim to help improve patient’s quality of life. The foundation is committed to providing services for families in need and has a network of more than 1500 active patients.

For more information on GLAM4GOOD:
https://glam4good.com/
@glam4good

For more information on San Jorge Children’s Foundation:
http://www.fundacionsanjorge.org/

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About The Mall of San Juan location:
H&M, Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) at The Mall of San Juan is located at 1000 The Mall of San Juan Blvd, San Juan, PR 00924. The store can be reached by phone at (855) 466-7467. Store hours will be Monday through Thursday 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., Friday and Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. and Sunday 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

For more information please contact:
Patrick Shaner
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 646.336. 3200
H&M, 110 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10011

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H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB (publ) was founded in Sweden in 1947 and is quoted on Nasdaq Stockholm. H&M’s business idea is to offer fashion and quality at the best price in a sustainable way. In addition to H&M, the group includes the brands COS, Monki, Weekday, Cheap Monday, & Other Stories and H&M Home as well as ARKET. The H&M group has 47 online markets and more than 4,700 stores in 69 markets including franchise markets. In 2017, sales including VAT were SEK 232 billion. The number of employees amounts to more than 171,000. For further information, visit about.hm.com.

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Martín Espada Awarded 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

June 12, 2018

CHICAGO, June 12, 2018 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Last night, the Poetry Foundation presented Martín Espada with the 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which honors a living US poet for outstanding lifetime achievement. Martín Espada was awarded the prize in recognition of his contribution to poetry. He is the first Latinx poet to win this award since its inception in 1986.

The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize is presented annually to a living US poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant singular recognition. It is one of the most prestigious awards given to American poets and, with a prize of $100,000, one of the nation’s largest literary prizes. The award is sponsored and administered by the Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine.

“Martín Espada’s work and life tell the real and lived story of America, in which the importance of poems and legal rights go hand in hand,” said Don Share, editor of Poetry magazine. “A tenants’ rights attorney before he became a celebrated and cherished poet, Espada’s passions are as compelling and apt as his precisions—both now more timely than ever.”

Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1957. He earned a BA in history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a JD from Northeastern University. As an attorney, he served as supervisor of Su Clínica Legal, a legal services program for low-income, Spanish-speaking tenants in Chelsea, Massachusetts, outside Boston. As a poet, an essayist, an editor, and a translator, he has dedicated himself to the pursuit of social justice, fighting for the rights of Latinx communities and reclaiming the historical record from oblivion. His greatest influence is his father, Frank Espada, a community organizer, civil rights activist, and documentary photographer who created the Puerto Rican Diaspora Documentary Project.

“To receive a lifetime achievement award in the form of the Ruth Lilly Prize is a great honor that causes me to reflect: on my father, as artist and activist, who died four years ago; on Jack Agüeros, the first poet I ever met; on the days I sat outside the courtroom, scribbling poems on legal pads; on the people in the poems I write, Whitman’s ‘numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known.'”

Espada’s latest collection of poems from Norton is Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (2016). Other books of poems include The Trouble Ball (2011), The Republic of Poetry (2006), Alabanza (2003), A Mayan Astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen (2000), Imagine the Angels of Bread (1996), and Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover’s Hands (1990). He has received a Shelley Memorial Award, a Robert Creeley Award, a National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award, a PEN/Revson Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Republic of Poetry was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The title poem of his collection Alabanza, about 9/11, has been widely anthologized and performed. Collections of Espada’s poems have been published in Puerto Rico, Spain, Chile, France, Germany, England, and Turkey. His book of essays, Zapata’s Disciple (1998), was banned in Tucson as part of a Mexican American studies program outlawed by the state of Arizona and has been issued in a new edition by Northwestern University Press. Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Examples of Espada’s poetry are available on the Poetry Foundation’s website.

Also honored at the event was acclaimed author Liesl Olson who was named the 2018 Criticism Award winner for her most recent book, Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis (Yale, 2017).

Olson is director of Chicago Studies at the Newberry Library and author of Modernism and the Ordinary (Oxford University Press, 2009). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and from the Newberry Library, where she also directed the Scholl Center for American History and Culture. She is currently on a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and is a scholar-in-residence at the Newberry Library. From 2004–2009, she taught at the University of Chicago as a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Humanities Division. She earned a BA from Stanford University and a PhD from Columbia University.

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