Integrated Schools in a Segregated City
Publication date:
10/2016
Ten strategies that have made New York City elementary schools more diverse.
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The Slowdown in Employer Insurance Cost Growth: Why Many Workers Still Feel the Pinch
Publication date:
10/2016
Many families feel pinched by their health care costs: despite a recent surge, income growth has not kept pace in many areas of the U.S. Employee contributions to premiums and deductibles amounted to 10.1 percent of U.S. median income in 2015, compared to 6.5 percent in 2006.
Catalytic Philanthropy Helps Build Healthier Communities
Publication date:
10/2016
What are the roles and responsibilities of philanthropy in building healthy communities? A new report from the Build Healthy Places Network (BHPN) takes a look at this question by profiling 38 efforts around the country to advance healthier communities. The report, Summarizing the Landscape of Healthy Communities: A Review of Demonstration Programs Working Towards Health Equity , asks and answers three key questions, one specifically focused on the responsibilities of philanthropy: What actions are communities across the U.S. undertaking to promote healthy communities? At the community level...
Developing a Young Adult Workforce Partnership on Staten Island - A JobsFirstNYC Working Paper
Publication date:
10/2016
Staten Island suffers from low levels of public and private investments in workforce services, a lack of viable public transportation, and a scarcity of high-quality jobs...
Young Immigrants are Making a Difference in the 2016 Election
Publication date:
10/2016
Fi2W’s new online magazine Democracy from the Ground Up: Young Immigrants and the 2016 Election features stories by and about members of an engaged generation working to strengthen democracy nationally and locally.
Targeting Workforce Dollars: You Don’t Get What You Don’t Pay For
Publication date:
10/2016
The third of Steven Dawson’s Pinkerton Paper Series explores the different challenges of low-income jobseekers who are all seeking the stability and respect that steady employment can provide.
The Impact of a $15 Minimum Wage on Hunger in America
Publication date:
09/2016
Today, 14.0 percent of American households—about one in seven—suffer from food insecurity, which means they do not have the resources to provide enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members.
Overlooked: Women and Jails in an Era of Reform
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09/2016
Since 1970, there has been a nearly five-fold increase in the number of people in U.S. jails—the approximately 3,000 county or municipality-run detention facilities that primarily hold people arrested but not yet convicted of a crime.
Preventing Missed Opportunity: Taking Collective Action to Confront Chronic Absence
Publication date:
09/2016
More than 6.5 million students, or about 13 percent, missed three or more weeks of school during a single school year, which is enough time to erode their achievement and threaten their chance of graduating.
Smart Skills versus Mindless Megadeals: Cost-Effective Workforce Development versus Costly “Buffalo Hunting,” with Proven Policy Solutions
Publication date:
09/2016
Workforce training is a cheaper, more cost-effective economic development option for states and cities than corporate "megadeals," a new report from Good Jobs First has found.
How the ACA’s Health Insurance Expansions Have Affected Out-of-Pocket Cost-Sharing and Spending on Premiums
Publication date:
09/2016
As enrollment in ACA plans increased, share of Americans with high out-of-pocket costs decreased.
Zika Virus Infection in Mice Causes Panuveitis with Shedding of Virus in Tears
Publication date:
09/2016
Beyond the clinical syndromes of microcephaly, intrauterine growth restriction, and fetal demise, several clinical studies have observed eye malformations and pathology in neonates born to mothers infected with ZIKV during pregnancy.
Raising Our Nation: Forging a More Robust and Equitable Childcare System in America
Publication date:
09/2016
This report provides a comprehensive look at our country’s childcare landscape, including its underlying gender- and-race-based inequities.
Learning to Be Useful: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Supporting Career and Technical Education
Publication date:
09/2016
If you are a donor who wants to bolster America’s workforce, this practical book will show you how.
Diversity in New York City’s Universal Pre-K Classrooms
Publication date:
09/2016
This report looks at one of the ways that New York City can make pre-K better: by giving more children the chance to learn in racially and socioeconomically diverse preschool classrooms.
“Why Wait Years to Become Something?” Low-income African American Youth and the Costly Career Search in For-profit Trade Schools
Publication date:
09/2016
Using data from fieldwork with 150 inner-city African American youth, we examine why disadvantaged youth are attracted to these schools and why they struggle to complete certifications.
Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices
Publication date:
09/2016
For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which evaluation practices best align with their strategy, culture, and mission. How much should a foundation invest in evaluation? What can they do to ensure that the information they receive from evaluation is useful to them? With whom should they share what they have learned
The Growth of Medical Homes in New York State, 2014 to 2016
Publication date:
09/2016
New York State continues to lead the nation in adoption of the medical home model by primary care practices, according to the newest in a series of reports tracking medical home growth in New York State.
Comparing the 2016 Presidential Candidates’ Health Proposals
Publication date:
09/2016
The Commonwealth Fund recently commissioned analysts with the RAND Corporation to crunch the numbers and find out how some of the candidates’ proposals would affect health care in the U.S. You can now learn all about the findings in two new Commonwealth Fund reports, our online comparison tool, and a summary on the Fund’s To the Point blog. In modeling the candidates’ proposals, RAND’s Christine Eibner and her team found that Clinton’s would increase the number of people with health coverage, while Trump’s would decrease the number. The analyses also show lower out-of-pocket costs for...
Improving Faculty Preparation in Research Universities
Publication date:
09/2016
The Teagle Foundation’s Graduate Student Teaching in the Arts and Sciences (GSTAS) initiative, first piloted in 2010 and expanded in 2012, engaged hundreds of graduate students, faculty, staff, and senior administrators across eight elite universities and two professional associations in thinking deeply about undergraduate teaching and learning.
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