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De Blasio Enlists New York City's Wealthy for His War on Income Inequality (Morgan Stanley)

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12/08/2015

... de Blasio, who became a scourge of the wealthy with a vow to raise their taxes, has enlisted members of the financial elite to advance his agenda. Venture capitalist Fred Wilson has offered $5 million...

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Economic Security

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Bloomberg Cited by NYTimes as Driver of Gun Control Progress Nationwide

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01/04/2016

... Control Progress Nationwide With President Obama poised to act on his own authority to try to stem gun violence, his gun control allies are using ...

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Public Policy

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Atlantic Philanthropies Writes About Philanthropy’s Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline

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01/07/2016

... Philanthropy’s Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline Last year, at the beginning of ... Emmanuel was suspended from school for bringing a brick to class. Emmanuel had found the brick in...

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Mayor Increases 'Fair Share' Funding for Schools, but Critics Want More

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01/25/2016

... Want More Mayor Bill de Blasio is dedicating $159 million in the next fiscal year to help beef up budgets at city schools that are currently ... well below what they should be receiving, according to...

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Presidential Candidates Ignore Long-Term Care Issues (United Hospital Fund)

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02/10/2016

... long-term care. “Unless something dramatic happens to cause people to pay attention, I don’t see it affecting this election or ... says Carol Levine, a national advocate for the 40 million...

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Aging

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WSJ Op-ed by Commonwealth Fund President Notes Potential Fallout to Repealing the ACA

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03/08/2016

... by Commonwealth Fund President Notes Potential Fallout to Repealing the ACA The initial National Health ... Americans under 65 who lack health insurance has plummeted to record lows since the Affordable Care...

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Commonwealth Research Cited by NYTimes on Reducing Bounce Between Health Plans

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03/23/2016

... Plans Millions of Americans are finding Obamacare to be unstable ground. Consider a young construction ... and must sign up for Medicaid. He had finally managed to control his diabetes with his primary care...

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Four Projects Supported by NY Community Trust Making Real Estate Cheaper for Artists To Live & Work in NYC

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04/01/2016

... NY Community Trust Making Real Estate Cheaper for Artists To Live & Work in NYC While finding affordable real estate ... in New York, it can be doubly tricky for artists who need to find affordable space...

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Arts

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As 12 Early Community Schools Face Funding Cuts, Advocates Question City’s Long-term Commitment

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06/17/2016

... on a dozen community schools that used state grants to finance after-school programs, tutoring, and student ... over the last three years. The city has not yet promised to pick up the tab for the schools when...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard Launch City Leadership Initiative

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08/26/2016

... Launch City Leadership Initiative Funded by a $32 million gift from Michael R. Bloomberg, Harvard ... they need — most of it made freely available — to tackle the complex leadership and management challenges...

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Mastercard's Singh on How Companies Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap

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10/21/2016

... know so well, the company makes purchase recommendations to them in real time based on items they've viewed or bought. ... aren't more of our cities leveraging data in the same way to improve...

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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Community Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities

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12/13/2016

Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities A new effort to enroll low- and moderate-income undergraduates at colleges ... Ithaka S+R. Bloomberg Philanthropies...

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Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness

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01/10/2017

Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness The project will, among ... a retired retail executive. “I bump into people; I try to avoid crowds. It was important for me to do...

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

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Glenn E. Martin, Founder of JustLeadershipUSA, Says He Met Some of America’s Best and Brightest While In Prison

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05/10/2016

... is a formerly incarcerated person, in a country where 70 million Americans have a criminal record on file. The JustLeadershipUSA founder raised his powerful voice to show the injustice of the system as well as...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Explores Burden of High Out-of-Pocket Costs on Medicare Beneficiaries

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05/12/2017

... of High Out-of-Pocket Costs on Medicare Beneficiaries To inform discussion of possible changes to Medicare, this issue brief looks at beneficiaries’ ... More than one-fourth of all Medicare beneficiaries—15...

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Bloomberg Writes on His Philanthropy's Public Health Projects

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06/01/2017

... a reminder that for all the ways in which we seem to be sliding backward, we’re lurching forward, too. The developing world turned a corner — thanks to medical advances, rising wealth and more — and .....

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Bloomberg-funded WHO Report: Dramatic Increase in Life-Saving Tobacco Control Policies In Last Decade

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07/20/2017

... ranging from graphic pack warnings and advertising bans to no smoking areas. About 4.7 billion people – 63% of the ... 15% of the world’s population, were covered. Strategies to implement such policies have...

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Rockefeller’s ‘Resilient Cities’ Noted in Article on Climate and Cities

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08/17/2017

... and well-tended green spaces cut a striking contrast to the overgrown vacant lots, industrial equipment yards and ... neighborhood. Tassafaronga Village, a six-year-old, $52.8 million LEED Gold housing...

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