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Integrated Schools in a Segregated City

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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

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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.

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The Commonwealth Fund

Catalytic Philanthropy Helps Build Healthier Communities

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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...

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Fannie E. Rippel Foundation

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Developing a Young Adult Workforce Partnership on Staten Island - A JobsFirstNYC Working Paper

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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...

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Young Immigrants are Making a Difference in the 2016 Election

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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.

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Immigration

Targeting Workforce Dollars: You Don’t Get What You Don’t Pay For

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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.

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The Pinkerton Foundation

The Impact of a $15 Minimum Wage on Hunger in America

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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.

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Food Systems

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The Century Foundation

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.

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Vera Institute of Justice, Inc.

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Justice Reform

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Preventing Missed Opportunity: Taking Collective Action to Confront Chronic Absence

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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.

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Smart Skills versus Mindless Megadeals: Cost-Effective Workforce Development versus Costly “Buffalo Hunting,” with Proven Policy Solutions

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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.

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How the ACA’s Health Insurance Expansions Have Affected Out-of-Pocket Cost-Sharing and Spending on Premiums

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09/2016

As enrollment in ACA plans increased, share of Americans with high out-of-pocket costs decreased.

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The Commonwealth Fund

Zika Virus Infection in Mice Causes Panuveitis with Shedding of Virus in Tears

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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.

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Raising Our Nation: Forging a More Robust and Equitable Childcare System in America

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09/2016

This report provides a comprehensive look at our country’s childcare landscape, including its underlying gender- and-race-based inequities.

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Gender Justice

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Ms. Foundation for Women

Learning to Be Useful: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Supporting Career and Technical Education

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09/2016

If you are a donor who wants to bolster America’s workforce, this practical book will show you how.

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Diversity in New York City’s Universal Pre-K Classrooms

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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.

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The Century Foundation

“Why Wait Years to Become Something?” Low-income African American Youth and the Costly Career Search in For-profit Trade Schools

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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.

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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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

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Growth of Medical Homes in New York State, 2014 to 2016

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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.

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United Hospital Fund

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...

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