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States Sue To Block DACA Termination, Citing Trump's 'Racial Animus'

Release Date:

09/07/2017

... immigrants known as DREAMers. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the Eastern District of New York, was brought by the ... U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said DACA would end in March 2018 unless Congress...

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Nonprofit Offers Guidance for Charities Worried About Deportation Raids

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09/11/2017

... may stop seeking services for fear of being swept up in a deportation raid. President Trump’s decision to end ...

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The New Corporate Recruitment Pool: Workers in Dead-End Jobs

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09/12/2017

The New Corporate Recruitment Pool: Workers in Dead-End Jobs Pressed for workers, a New Jersey-based ... for a U.S. city with a surplus of talented employees stuck in dead-end jobs. Brian Brown, chief operating...

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

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09/13/2017

... A more natural question should be: What drives poor health in the U.S., and what can be done about it? We know the answer. Food is the number one cause of poor health in America. . . Opinion: Want to Fix...

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Education Coalition Promises To Continue ‘Opt-Outs’

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09/14/2017

... “Although there have been minor improvements that move us in the right direction, we continue to institutionalize a ...

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Silent Killer: Sweltering Planet Braces For Deadly Heat Shocks

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09/19/2017

... Deadly Heat Shocks When Hurricane Harvey blasted ashore in August, drowning south Texas in a year's worth of rain in just a few days, it left behind an estimated $150 billion .....

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Poverty Falls, Income Rises. Should De Blasio Get the Credit?

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... Should De Blasio Get the Credit? The New Yorkers who live in that other city Mayor Bill de Blasio talks about so ... he deserves for it. The percentage of New Yorkers living in poverty has declined...

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DACA Recipients Scramble to Reapply, But Not All are Eligible

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... Scramble to Reapply, But Not All are Eligible At a meeting in Jackson Heights, under the rumble of the 7 train, about 40 DACA recipients learned that their fate in this country depends on one date: March 5,...

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Charter-School Operators, Feeling Pressured, Seek New Direction at Symposium

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09/25/2017

... expects to gather about 350 educators and advocates in Queens on Oct. 12 and 13. . . Charter-School Operators, ...

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Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success

Release Date:

09/27/2017

... how good a school is? Test scores? Culture? Attendance? In the new federal education law (the Every Student Succeeds ...

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Senate Republicans Say They Will Not Vote on Health Bill

Release Date:

09/27/2017

... vote on the measure and effectively admitting defeat in their last-gasp drive to fulfill a core promise of ... be able to do that this week, but it still lies ahead of us , and we haven’t given up on that...

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Can You Ask for Salary History in Your State?

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09/27/2017

Can You Ask for Salary History in Your State? Your lawyer might agree with Miss Manners that ... from asking prospective staff about salary history, in an attempt to foster pay equity among men and women. But .....

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Minorities and Americans Without College Degrees Showed Greatest Gains In Wealth Since 2013, New Data Shows

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... Americans Without College Degrees Showed Greatest Gains In Wealth Since 2013, New Data Shows Americans who were left ... and people without college degrees — saw large gains in net worth over the past three...

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‘Interrupters’ Help Reduce Violence in New York City

Release Date:

10/02/2017

‘Interrupters’ Help Reduce Violence in New York City They have prior criminal records but now aim ... and their tactics helped to drive down crime in East New York and the South Bronx, two neighborhoods analyzed...

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School Systems Prepare for Puerto Rican Students

Release Date:

10/03/2017

... unique, difficult and unprecedented situation that none of us has experienced before,” Julia Keleher, Puerto Rico’s education secretary, told staff members in a letter Friday. . . School Systems Prepare for...

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Google Pledges $1 Billion to Fund Non-Profit Education

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10/13/2017

... CEO Sundar Pichai announced the goal Thursday morning in Pittsburgh, the city where he arrived in the U.S. from India 24 years ago. Pichai also unveiled a ...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Organizations Can Reduce Their Carbon Footprint and Improve Health

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04/20/2018

... $3.3 trillion GDP would give it the fifth-largest economy in the world. It is also the world’s seventh-largest ... strategies to cope with extreme weather events. In the process, these institutions seem to be...

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The Commonwealth Fund

New Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds Americans Suffering Health Coverage Insecurity Along with Job Losses

Release Date:

04/21/2020

... Along with Job Losses More than 22 million people in the U.S. have filed unemployment claims since the beginning of the coronavirus economic shutdown in March. Since most people get health insurance through...

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The Commonwealth Fund

08 May 2019

Are Housing Vouchers Contributing to Racial and Economic Segregation for Families with Children? - A Webinar Hosted by Funders Together to End Homelessness

Wednesday, May 8, 2019 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... choices about where to live, including the chance to live in lower-poverty, higher-opportunity neighborhoods and help ... can think about these findings and their investments in their communities...

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Children, Youth and Families

Housing and Homelessness

Measuring What Matters: Funder Evaluation

Funders often ask grantees to have assessment strategies in place. However, they don’t always practice what they ... series that encourages funders to look internally at their foundation ’s values, practices and...

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