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Russell Sage Foundation Quoted in Article on Men’s Salaries in Decline

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09/14/2017

Russell Sage Foundation Quoted in Article on Men’ s Salaries in Decline American household income is rising, ... incomes continue to shrink, according to the latest data from the Census Bureau. The trend is part...

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Ms. Foundation Centers Black Women, Nonconforming People and Fem(me)s in Campaigns for Expanded Sanctuary Cities

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09/15/2017

... Centers Black Women, Nonconforming People and Fem(me) s in Campaigns for Expanded Sanctuary Cities As the Trump ... Black Women, Girls, Nonconforming People and Fem(me) s in Campaigns for Expanded Sanctuary...

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Ford Teams up with Stephen Ross to Invest $27.5M in Platform Projects throughout Detroit

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09/15/2017

... Theatre at the DIA. Their investments add to $10 million from The Platform, a development company formed by Peter ... to areas outside of the significant development that' s already taken place in the...

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Albany, Glens Falls among Regions Adding Jobs in New York

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09/15/2017

... added 400 private-sector jobs in August, up 0.1 percent from August 2016. In the Glens Falls metropolitan area, 200 ...

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Workforce Development

Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace

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09/15/2017

Report Finds U. S . Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace ... CFED) and the Institute for Policy Studies, America’ s already large racial wealth gap, far from narrowing, will grow...

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Economic Security

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

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09/15/2017

... for All’: Is It Popular? And Is It the Same as Britain’ s System? As leading Democrats embrace Senator Bernie Sanders’ s proposal to vastly expand Medicare to cover all Americans, ... an assessment of their...

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The Future Of New York City Transit in Every Borough

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09/19/2017

The Future Of New York City Transit in Every Borough From the moment that the first streetcars started rumbling along New York City’ s streets in the 19th century, people have sought ways to ... we know it—the...

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Community Development

These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It?

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09/19/2017

... the Paris accord would be bad for business, top executives from Bank of America and Coca-Cola argued. When President Donald Trump committed to yanking the U. S . out anyway, PayPal and Western Union countered “...

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Into Battle: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way

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09/19/2017

... approach to big problems that Chan and Zuckerberg favor. From the start, CZI has sought to pull several major levers ...

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

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09/20/2017

... a 51-member body, currently includes only 13 women, down from 18 in 2009, and that number is likely to soon fall to 12 ... when the next Council is seated in January, if this year’ s elections continue as...

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Gotham Gains: Family Incomes Up, Poverty Down

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09/20/2017

... Up, Poverty Down New data for 2016, released by the U. S . Census Bureau last week, shows continued healthy gains in ... Wages, Broader Advances: Seven Indicators of New York’ s Economic Health.” The Census...

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New Book, "The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World by Carnegie Council Centennial Chair Michael Ignatieff

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09/20/2017

... 18 by Harvard University Press, presents Ignatieff’ s discoveries and his interpretation of what ... in Budapest and was Carnegie Council Centennial Chair from 2012-2014. “We were honored to have Michael...

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If Congress Doesn’t Act Fast on Children’s Health Insurance, Millions Could Be at Risk

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09/21/2017

If Congress Doesn’t Act Fast on Children’ s Health Insurance, Millions Could Be at Risk Last Tuesday, ... agreement to extend funding for the national Children’ s Health Insurance Program for five more years. The...

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Insurers Come Out Swinging Against New Republican Health Care Bill

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09/21/2017

... came out forcefully on Wednesday against the Senate’ s latest bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, suggesting ... in the bill. Generally, it would shift federal funds away from states that have been...

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Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors

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09/21/2017

... solve a thorny problem or better achieve its goals. "It’ s a way to get to know people on a deeper level than just superficial chitchat," Ms. Wong says. "It’ s about connecting with people...

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How Nonprofits Can Make The Super Rich Work For Them

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09/22/2017

... $390 billion awarded to charities last year. The lion’ s share was from high net worth individuals, an estimated 91% of whom ... with at least $1 million in liquid financial assets–by U. S ...

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Making Kids Into “Makers”

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09/22/2017

Making Kids Into “Makers” The new annual Inventor’ s Challenge prompts children to develop their creative ... people in 17 countries participated in the Inventor’ s Challenge , a contest that asks kids ...

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Education

Senators Revise Health Bill in Last-Ditch Effort to Win Votes

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09/25/2017

... showing the state-by-state impact of the revised bill from 2020 to 2026. It indicated that Alaska would receive 3 ...

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Many Students Around the World Can’t Read or Add, World Bank Says

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09/27/2017

... even the most basic life skills,” write the report’ s authors, Deon Filmer and Halsey Rogers, both economists at ... without the skills for calculating the correct change from a transaction, reading a doctor...

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