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Opinion: Want to Fix America’s Health Care? First, Focus on Food

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09/13/2017

Opinion: Want to Fix America’s Health Care? First, Focus on Food The ... price of care which drives nearly all disputes, from access to benefit levels to Medicaid expansion. So...

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NYS Health’s Event Recap: Reporting in the ‘Fake News’ Era: A Conversation With Health Reporter Charles Ornstein

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09/13/2017

... Charles Ornstein, senior reporter covering health care at ProPublica, for a wide-ranging conversation about the ... unfiltered social media landscape; what they need and want from health care experts and other...

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Education Coalition Promises To Continue ‘Opt-Outs’

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09/14/2017

Education Coalition Promises To Continue ‘Opt-Outs’ Claiming the Next Generation ... Core, a coalition of parent and teacher groups is vowing to continue boycotting New York’s standardized tests. NYS ... Education...

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Cuomo Assigns ‘Gang Prevention’ Cops to Long Island Schools Where MS-13, Others Thrive

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09/14/2017

Cuomo Assigns ‘Gang Prevention’ Cops to Long Island Schools Where MS-13, Others Thrive Calling ... announced state police will be going into schools to combat the problem. Cuomo during a Long Island appearance...

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Opinion: Irma, Harvey and Sandy - We Need a Marshall Plan for Future Disasters Like These

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09/14/2017

... my home state of New York in 2012, it dealt a severe blow to communities that were unprepared for a major flooding ... were ruined because residents and local governments failed to appreciate the risk. Now the...

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Governor Cuomo Announces New Initiatives to Combat Addiction Across New York State

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09/14/2017

Governor Cuomo Announces New Initiatives to Combat Addiction Across New York State Governor Andrew M. ... recovery and support services to residents suffering from substance use disorders in...

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Fund the People Toolkit

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09/2017

Fund the People created this toolkit to provide practical guidance, promising practices, and illustrative data to help funders, nonprofits, and others to maximize ... dialogue on talent issues Resources: curated content from across the social sector Fund the People Toolkit ...

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Bed-Stuy’s Gentrification, Effects On Residents Analyzed In Comptroller’s Report

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09/20/2017

... Report Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy is much different today from what it once was back when films like Spike Lee’s Do ... of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Neighborhood,” takes a look at how gentrification has affected the...

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More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog

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09/21/2017

... school students attend overcrowded schools, according to a new report from the watchdog group Class Size Matters. Despite the ... getting worse as existing seats are being chipped away due to...

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New App Helps Students Select NYC Public High Schools

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09/21/2017

... NYC Public High Schools As New York City students gear up to apply to public high schools for next fall, a free mobile app aims to steer disadvantaged students away from low...

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JCOPE Commissioners Again Rule Civil Liberties Group Must Disclose Donors

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09/21/2017

... the New York Civil Liberties Union must disclose donors to its state lobbying efforts. Several times the ... that the NYCLU must disclose its donors, despite arguments from the free speech rights group that...

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What’s The [Data] Point? 77,651, with the City Housing Commissioner

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09/25/2017

... city's housing commissioner, Maria Torres-Springer, gave at a Citizens Budget Commission event on Wednesday, September ... program, and then Torres-Springer answering questions from Gotham Gazette and CBC...

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Voters Pick Women Over Men in Primary for All Six Brooklyn Judicial Seats

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09/25/2017

... elections September 12, Brooklyn Democratic voters seemed to base their selections for Civil Court judge primarily on gender; immune, apparently, to an ongoing squabble over the process for selecting the .....

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Commonwealth Fund: Why the Graham-Cassidy Repeal Bill Is Unworkable

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09/25/2017

... and Medicaid expansions and turn the money over to the states in block grants. By 2026, the bill would dramatically reallocate funding from states that expanded Medicaid coverage for their residents under the...

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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 ... “A human-centered...

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Cuomo Says Major Budget Changes May Be Needed If New York Loses $2B In Health Care Funding

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09/26/2017

... needed if more than $2 billion in federal health care cuts to New York are allowed to take effect on Oct. 1. Cuomo said the looming cuts, which ... already-adopted budget. “If we lose $2 billion on Oct. 1...

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Red Tape, Frustration Pushing Out Applicants for Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Program, Report Shows

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09/26/2017

... Shows Hurricane Sandy victims have dropped out in droves from the city’s Build It Back recovery program, new data ...

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Can You Ask for Salary History in Your State?

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09/27/2017

... States and cities across the U.S. are banning employers from asking prospective staff about salary history, in an attempt to foster pay equity among men and women. But it may take time for the bans to...

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Yahoo Co-Founder Gives $25 Million to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum

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09/27/2017

Yahoo Co-Founder Gives $25 Million to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum In a rare example of high-level cultural philanthropy from Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial elite, Jerry Yang, a ... city but privately...

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