MasterCard Makes Fortune List of Businesses Confronting World's Problems
Release Date:
08/23/2016
More businesses are taking on society’s biggest problems—and making money doing so. Here’s our look at 50 companies that do well by doing good.
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Bloomberg's Henning Explains Why Understanding Death Leads to Better Health
Release Date:
08/23/2016
“The goal here is really to address this giant gap, whereby we know 65 percent of deaths in the world — that’s about 35 million — go unrecorded,” said Dr. Kelly Henning, who has led the Bloomberg Philanthropies public health program since it started...
Century Foundation Fellow Proposes Post-Obama Syrian-U.S. Relations Strategy
Release Date:
08/22/2016
Thanassis Cambanis, senior fellow at the Century Foundation, advocates that the United States escalate its existing military intervention in Syria to raise the chances of a political solution to Syria’s civil war while limiting the potential for...
Russell Sage Foundation Papers Help Explain the Growing Wage Gap
Release Date:
08/22/2016
A new essay from researchers Martha J. Bailey and Thomas A. DiPrete, which is part of a newly released collection of papers from the Russell Sage Foundation, helps to explain why women are no longer catching up to men when it comes to pay.
Commonwealth Fund Exec Comments on Obamacare Marketplace Pressures
Release Date:
08/22/2016
Sara Collins, vice president for healthcare coverage and access at The Commonwealth Fund, said she believes the Obamacare markets are maturing rather than dying.
Minority Business Accelerator Gets Another Big Boost from Surdna Foundation
Release Date:
08/19/2016
The MBA's work aligns well with one of the core missions of the Surdna Foundation, said Jose Garcia, a program officer with the foundation's Strong Local Economies program.
Simons-Backed Study Shows Neural Stem Cells in Adult Mice Also Vulnerable to Zika
Release Date:
08/19/2016
Zika infection kills off neural stem cells in adult mice bred to be vulnerable to the virus, researchers at the Rockefeller University and the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology report in Cell Stem Cell.
Commonwealth Fund Report Finds Many Hispanics, Poor Still Without Health Insurance
Release Date:
08/18/2016
Majority live in states that haven't expanded Medicaid, survey finds.
With Support from NY State Health Foundation, Plattsburgh Retrofits Old Tennis Courts
Release Date:
08/18/2016
A grant received by the Foundation of CVPH from the New York State Health Foundation allowed the city to retrofit old tennis courts to establish 13 permanent Pickle Ball Courts in Clinton County.
Century Foundation Expert Says Tuition-Free College Wouldn’t Admit More Low-Income Students
Release Date:
08/18/2016
Top public schools fear falling in national college rankings if they accept students with lower test scores.
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