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

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09/25/2017

... and two jobs. Apolinar Islas, 34, who came to New York from Mexico when he was 15, said he walks around in “zombie ... immigrants brought to the United States as children from deportation and lets them work...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Immigration

Open Society Research Looks at New Technology Predicting Recidivism Without Being Racist

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09/25/2017

... So you’ve just been arrested. Welcome to Philadelphia’ s criminal justice system. You’ll soon be whisked into a ... Good luck. The current process of assigning bail is far from scientific. As part of sweeping...

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Justice Reform

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Guggenheim Museum Is Criticized for Pulling Animal Artworks

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09/27/2017

... of free speech debates — think of Rudolph W. Giuliani’ s battle with the Brooklyn Museum over a Virgin Mary artwork ... Monday, the Guggenheim decided to pull three major works from a highly anticipated...

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Arts

Filling New York Harbor with Millions Of Oysters to Fight Pollution

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09/28/2017

... every weekday trucks pick up 4 tons of oyster shells from 70 restaurants across the city for the Billion Oyster ... Harbor. Oysters filter out excess nitrogen—the harbor' s primary pollutant—produced by...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Tax Plan Doubles Standard Deduction, Leaves Charitable Deduction In Place

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09/28/2017

... personal exemptions; Reduce seven tax brackets ranging from 10 to 39.6 percent into three tax brackets of 12, 25 and ... taxpayers; and, Reduce the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent. . . Tax...

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Home Health Workers: All the Work, Half the Pay

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10/02/2017

... Half the Pay Lai Yee Chan worked piece-rate in the city' s textile factories for more than a decade to support her three children after she emigrated from China in the late 1980s. She sometimes labored...

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Nations Urged to Reject Phillip Morris Funds for Antismoking Efforts

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10/03/2017

... this new organization with a mission of reducing the harm from smoking. Angry responses to this announcement came from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other ... seems to see these “vaping” options as...

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International/Foreign Affairs

Building Bridges between Scared Immigrant Communities and Police

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10/06/2017

... climate of crackdowns on immigration and increased raids from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Many ... to Houston Police Department data, sexual assault reports from the Latinx community dropped...

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Immigration

Opinion: No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job

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10/10/2017

... No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job The recovery from the crisis of 2008 has been one of the weakest on ... but unemployment dropped yet again, to just 4.2 percent from 4.4 percent, both lows rarely seen in...

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Workforce Development

Research Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads To Passwords In Clothing

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11/02/2017

... to wear your password on your sleeve? Computer scientists from the University of Washington can make it so. A research team led by UW’ s Shyam Gollakota has demonstrated a method for encoding ... tricks that...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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The Rockefeller Foundation Joins Hotel Industry To Reduce Food Waste

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11/14/2017

... American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, unveil results from a set of projects demonstrating innovative strategies ...

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Food Systems

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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

... $100,000 Match Brooklyn is setting out to prove that it’ s New York City’ s most generous borough this holiday season ... Chamber of Commerce, and sponsored by TD Bank with support from...

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OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros

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11/27/2017

OSF Denounces Hungarian Government' s Attacks Against Soros Hungarian-American financier and ... the resettlement of "at least a million immigrants from Africa and the Middle East annually on the...

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Appointments & Transitions

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Distinguished Writer, Poet, Scholar, and Arts Advocate Elizabeth Alexander as President

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02/07/2018

... have elected Elizabeth Alexander to be the Foundation’ s next President, effective March 2018. Alexander will ... building and sustaining highly successful institutions – from the Poetry Center at Smith...

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New York Foundation Releases New Video in the Ongoing Series "In Their Own Words"

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03/29/2018

... Their Own Words: Quardean Lewis-Allen, Made in Brownsville from New York Foundation on Vimeo . To better understand what ... video series, “In Their Own Words”, and hear directly from leaders about the...

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William Randolph Hearst Foundations Provides Hefty Grant to SOPAC to Partner with School District

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04/26/2018

... Orange Performing Arts Center received a $75,000 grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundations to advance its ... the 2018-2019 school year and will allow the district’ s middle school students to...

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William Randolph Hearst Foundation

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The United Hospital Fund Releases Report on Positive Impact of Home Health Care

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04/30/2018

... refuse home health care services when they are discharged from inpatient care. Such refusals can lead to higher rates ... refused home health care services. Their reasons ranged from concerns about finances,...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants Duke University $3M to Grow Liberal Arts Colleges and HBCU Visiting Faculty

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05/07/2018

... Faculty Duke University has landed a $3 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to grow its ... builds on a previous initiative – also funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation – known as...

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Education

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Commonwealth Fund Study Reveals State Rankings on the Nation’s Best Health Care

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05/08/2018

... Fund Study Reveals State Rankings on the Nation’ s Best Health Care After the average life expectancy in the ... The study broke down over 40 areas of health care from access, to the value of care Americans...

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