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Senate Republicans Say They Will Not Vote on Health Bill

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09/27/2017

Senate Republicans officially abandoned the latest plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act, shelving a showdown vote on the measure and effectively admitting defeat in their last-gasp drive to fulfill a core promise of President Trump and Republican...

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How Failure of the Obamacare Repeal Affects Consumers

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09/27/2017

Obamacare repeal is dead, again. But the months of Republican attacks on the health law will still have consequences for some consumers.

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Can You Ask for Salary History in Your State?

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09/27/2017

Your lawyer might agree with Miss Manners that you shouldn’t ask people how much money they make, especially if they’re job candidates.

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Guggenheim Museum Is Criticized for Pulling Animal Artworks

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09/27/2017

Artists and museums are often in the thick of free speech debates, and in two recent controversies, the protesters seem to be winning.

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Yahoo Co-Founder Gives $25 Million to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum

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09/27/2017

In a rare example of high-level cultural philanthropy from Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial elite, Jerry Yang, a Yahoo co-founder, and his wife, Akiko Yamazaki, have pledged $25 million toward a $90-million transformation project of the Asian Art...

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Opinion: A Cash Guarantee for All Has Philanthropy Buzzing

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09/27/2017

These days, to achieve maximum buzz, a policy idea needs the right combination of utopian promise and real-world possibility. You can make the argument that universal basic income has recently offered the headiest brew of that mix, for both the...

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Many Students Around the World Can’t Read or Add, World Bank Says

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09/27/2017

Around the world, hundreds of millions of students are spending years in school while learning virtually nothing, and many countries are neglecting to even measure their progress, the World Bank warned in its flagship annual economic development...

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73% of Donors Worldwide Are Women, and Most Like to Give Online, Study Says

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09/27/2017

Seventy-three percent of charitable donors in the word are women age 37 or older, and nearly 60 percent of them prefer to give online. Ninety-three percent of them live in primarily wealthy, developed countries.

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Weinberg Foundation Approves $500,000 in Emergency Funding to Those Affected by Hurricane Irma in Florida

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09/27/2017

In response to the recent devastation caused by Hurricane Irma, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, has announced emergency grant funding to support relief efforts in Florida.

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Open Society, Ford Foundation, Unbound Philanthropy Support Delivering on the Dream Initiative

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09/27/2017

The Trump Administration's decision to end DACA has created a lot of anger and pushback, including from some prominent corporate leaders. But what are foundations doing to protect undocumented young people from deportation and save DACA, the fate of...