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Obama Foundation to Host Global Summit in Chicago

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09/14/2017

Obama Foundation to Host Global Summit in Chicago Former President Barack ... together civic leaders from around the world next month to take part in the inaugural Obama Foundation Summit. The summit in Chicago...

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In Year Three Of New York City’s Massive School Turnaround Program, The Big Question Is: What’s Next?

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09/18/2017

... still hanging in the air, Fariña’s visit was meant to highlight the enormous investments the city has made in ...

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In Harlem, These Elders Devote Their Golden Years To Improving Local Schools

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09/18/2017

In Harlem, These Elders Devote Their Golden Years To Improving Local Schools In the eve of her 92nd birthday, Lottie Raukx wasn’t going to let the aches of arthritis or numbness of neuropathy slow ... fight for...

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Refugees Rent Trump’s Childhood Home To Send Message To UN Leaders

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09/19/2017

Refugees Rent Trump’s Childhood Home To Send Message To UN Leaders President Donald Trump’s childhood home in ... off to an unidentified buyer in March for $2.14 million, its...

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Immigration

The Holocaust Museum Sought Lessons on Syria. What It Got Was a Political Backlash.

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09/20/2017

... strategies could have lessened the bloodshed, now in its sixth year. Museum leaders and the study’s authors had ... mitigate similar crises. Though the authors found much to dislike in President Obama’s...

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New Data Shows Retirees Are on the Move, But Young Folks Are a Different Story

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09/20/2017

... millennials aren’t. The share of Americans who moved to a different residence last year fell to its lowest point in the past decade, according to new ...

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At James Blake Trial, Judge Invokes Law Shielding Police Records

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09/21/2017

... Police Department stopped providing disciplinary records to reporters at its headquarters, citing the statute, known by the clause ... de Blasio administration’s assertion that 50-a applied to...

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Justice Reform

A Start-Up Slump Is a Drag on the Economy. Big Business May Be to Blame.

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09/21/2017

... Slump Is a Drag on the Economy. Big Business May Be to Blame. Unemployment has fallen, and the stock market has ... recently, anemic wage growth? Economists say the answer, to some degree, can be found in a...

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States Team Up To Fight Climate Change

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09/21/2017

States Team Up To Fight Climate Change A group of states adhering to the initial U.S. commitment to the Paris climate accord ... Trump said he would withdraw from the Paris agreement in ...

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A Baseline for Success: Creating Sustainable PPPs

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09/22/2017

A Baseline for Success: Creating Sustainable PPPs To develop and sustain successful public-private ... and replication opportunities. It’s also important to consider how the political and partnership landscape may...

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Sustainable Innovation: 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself

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09/25/2017

... Every Company Should Ask Itself In his book ‘The Way to Design,” Steve Vassalo quotes John Arnold, who taught a course at Stanford in the early ‘60s called ‘How to Ask a Question’: “Each of man’s advances was...

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How Much Time Was Spent on Subway? M.T.A. Can Now Tell You

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09/26/2017

... on-time performance has been flawed and has failed to provide riders with information that matched their ...

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De Blasio Taps Acting Commissioner Vincent Sapienza To Head Department of Environmental Protection

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10/03/2017

De Blasio Taps Acting Commissioner Vincent Sapienza To Head Department of Environmental Protection Mayor de ... “When I sign things, I guess it’s one less word I have to write,” Sapienza, who started as an...

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Mayor De Blasio Eyes 'Ideal' Queens Site For New Jail As Rikers Shuts Down

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10/03/2017

... eyeing a now-shuttered Queens jail as an “ideal” spot to house prisoners as Rikers Island shuts down. After eleven ... would be an ideal first step and we have already started to take a hard look at this site...

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Robots Are Replacing Fast Food Workers At New Shake Shack

Release Date:

10/03/2017

... will replace humans and cash won’t be accepted at a soon- to -open Shake Shack in the East Village, reps for the popular ... kiosks inside the restaurant, which is scheduled to open an Astor Place branch later...

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Kessler Foundation Awards Reeves-Reed Arboretum with Grant to Complete Accessibility Project

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10/03/2017

Kessler Foundation Awards Reeves-Reed Arboretum with Grant to Complete Accessibility Project The mission of Reeves-Reed Arboretum is to engage, educate, and enrich the lives of visitors to .....

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NYers Face Harsher ATM Fees Than Nearly Anyone in Nation, Study Finds

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10/04/2017

... Study Finds If it feels like you're constantly paying more to withdraw your own money from an ATM not affiliated with ... hit a record high for the 11th straight year, according to the latest study from...

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Republicans Are Reconsidering Full Repeal of State and Local Tax Deduction

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10/04/2017

... Republican leaders are backing away from a proposal to fully repeal an expensive tax break used by more than 40 million tax filers to deduct state and local taxes amid pushback from fellow ... estimated...

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UN Moves To Blacklist Saudi Coalition For Violations Against Children In Yemen

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10/05/2017

UN Moves To Blacklist Saudi Coalition For Violations Against Children ... conceded that the coalition has put in place measures to improve child protection. It is the first time the annual ... between parties that...

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New York City Students Are Getting Younger

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10/05/2017

... expansion is not happening in quite the same blitz as its massive scale-up of classes for 4-year-olds, when the city added nearly 50,000 full-day pre-k seats to the school system over the course of two years...

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