Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness
Release Date:
09/25/2017
It’s worth wondering what else seeps into public space — not the least of which seems to be a taste for order.
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Puerto Rico's Governor Calls for Greater Federal Response to Hurricane Maria
Release Date:
09/25/2017
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello called on the Pentagon to provide more search-and-rescue help and humanitarian resources to help the beleaguered island recover from “complete devastation” from Hurricane Maria.
In Canada, Climate Change Could Open New Farmland To The Plow
Release Date:
09/25/2017
As global warming intensifies droughts and floods, causing crop failures, Canada may see something different: a farming expansion.
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Notes Ways Foundations Can Step Up to Scale Solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals
Release Date:
09/25/2017
A new report released this week, Scaling Solutions Toward Shifting Systems, based on interviews with leading NGOs and grantmakers, seeks to offer some concrete recommendations and catalyze a conversation about how to change the industry with an eye...
Biggest Flash Points In The Graham-Cassidy Health Care Bill
Release Date:
09/25/2017
If Senate Republicans vote to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act this week, it would affect the health care of pretty much every American.
Nearly Two Dozen Teachers at Brooklyn’s New American Academy Taking Pay Cuts Of Up to $50G
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09/25/2017
Nearly two dozen teachers at Brooklyn’s New American Academy took pay cuts, some in the $50,000 range, after Education Department officials killed an experimental pay program at the school.
Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy
Release Date:
09/25/2017
Chefs Boot Camp initiative is part of the James Beard Foundation's education and outreach programming and represents a relatively new step in the culinary community: the recognition that chefs can — and should — try to influence food-systems policy...
Administration Of Children’s Services Staffers Now Being Sent To NYPD Investigator Course
Release Date:
09/25/2017
Staffers at the city's Administration of Children's Services are being sent to the NYPD’s Police Academy to receive special training in tactics and procedures they could use in their own investigations, the Daily News has learned.
Back-and-Forth on DACA Leaves Young Immigrants ‘Just Dangling’
Release Date:
09/25/2017
Recipients of DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, program have felt a whiplash of emotions since Sept. 5, when, after months of uncertainty, the Trump administration announced it would be ending the program.
Commentary from The Century Foundation: Women’s Underrepresentation in Politics: No, It’s Not Just an Ambition Gap
Release Date:
09/25/2017
The United States champions itself as a beacon of democracy, yet nearly a century after granting its women citizens the right to vote, it clocks in behind ninety-eight other countries with regard to women’s participation as representatives in...
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