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Standing Up For Housing Equality

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09/13/2017

... headlines and ending in deadly violence as a result of white nationalists, neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan members ... while completely unrelated, members and supporters of the New York...

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Housing and Homelessness

Gates Report Stresses Need for Philanthropy Amid Aid Cuts

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09/13/2017

... to underscore deep worries that the world is in danger of backsliding on a broad range of international-development ... report, and two events the Gateses will host next week in New ...

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Here's What's In Bernie Sanders' 'Medicare For All' Bill

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09/14/2017

... — his attempt to push single-payer health care, long one of his favorite causes. In a Wednesday op-ed in the New York Times, the former presidential candidate wrote about ...

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Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’s Green City Force

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09/14/2017

... says McKay, who earns $17 an hour. In this episode of NationSwell’s eight-part minidocumentary series on ... called Green City Force, which empowers young adults from New York City’s public...

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Workforce Development

‘Medicare for All’: Is It Popular? And Is It the Same as Britain’s System?

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09/15/2017

... Republicans are fighting back with familiar critiques of such a single-payer system. Mr. Sanders argued for his ... for all” legislation in an Op-Ed published in The New York Times on...

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Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers

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09/18/2017

... At a time when the United States is in the grip of an opioid epidemic, many insurers are limiting access to ... less attention. That may be changing, however. The New York State attorney...

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Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees

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09/19/2017

Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees Trump administration officials, under pressure ... they cost. The draft report, which was obtained by The New York Times,...

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Immigration

Williamson Foundation’s Caroline Williamson Interviewed on Adaptive Leadership

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09/19/2017

... and colleagues at Harvard’s Kennedy School, as a form of reflective practice. Marc Manashil, with Dr. Linda Lausell Bryant, created a variety of programs at New York...

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The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime

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09/19/2017

The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime The day before students returned to class this month, New York City officials...

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At the City Council, Better Gender Balance Among Chiefs of Staff

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09/20/2017

At the City Council, Better Gender Balance Among Chiefs of Staff The New York City Council, a 51-member body, currently includes only ...

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Back-and-Forth on DACA Leaves Young Immigrants ‘Just Dangling’

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09/25/2017

... classes and two jobs. Apolinar Islas, 34, who came to New York from Mexico when he was 15, said he walks around in ... and tries to stay off social media to avoid “the tsunami of confusion.”...

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Report Finds Gaps in Access to Opioid Addiction Help on Staten Island

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09/26/2017

... Gaps in Access to Opioid Addiction Help on Staten Island New York City was in the throes of an alarming increase in opioid-related overdoses last ...

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Schools’ Response to Bullying Is Questioned After Fatal School Stabbing

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10/02/2017

... history class in a Bronx school. A school social worker in New York City for 25 years, Harding formed a theory about what triggered the killing as soon as an image of 18-year-old Abel Cedeno...

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Home Health Workers: All the Work, Half the Pay

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10/02/2017

... Midtown warehouse. Chan's current workplace, the apartment of an elderly man with Alzheimer's who was partially ... a sweatshop just the same. Chan is part of a cohort of ...

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How Many Big Storms Before People Abandon Coastal Cities?

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10/02/2017

... Cities? People love living near the coast. Only two of the world's top 10 biggest cities — Mexico City and Sáo ... Paulo — are not coastal. The rest — Tokyo, Mumbai, New York , Shanghai,...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Richard Thaler Wins Economics Nobel for Recognizing People Are Irrational

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10/10/2017

... Nobel for Recognizing People Are Irrational Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago, considered one of the founding ... Thaler said of the basic premise of...

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Economic Security

As Bloomberg Hammers Away at Coal, What Might Be Next for His Climate Giving?

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10/18/2017

... headline came from the Courier-Journal in Louisville: “ New York City billionaires are battling over coal. And Kentucky is caught in the middle.” While the fate of the coal industry is bigger...

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Towards a Fine-Free Future: JPB Foundation Tackles a Barrier to Public Library Engagement

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10/27/2017

... a Barrier to Public Library Engagement Recent coverage of public library giving can be summarized in a single word: ... public libraries are free, right? Not so fast, says the New York City-...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Encourages Donors to Give Where They Live with $100,000 Match

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11/20/2017

... Match Brooklyn is setting out to prove that it’s New York City’s most generous borough this holiday season with ... Tuesday, a 24-hour giving day that aims to raise hundreds of thousands...

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