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Mortality Rates for Middle-Aged Whites Not Just About Drugs, Suicide, Says Commonwealth Fund

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02/01/2016

Mortality Rates for Middle-Aged Whites Not Just About Drugs, Suicide, Says Commonwealth Fund At the end of 2015, Princeton University economists Anne Case and Angus ... and more mental health problems. In January...

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Cuomo Offers Support for Mark-Viverito’s Call to Close Rikers

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02/16/2016

Cuomo Offers Support for Mark-Viverito’s Call to Close Rikers Gov. Andrew Cuomo voiced support Sunday for New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito’s call ... Calling the idea offered...

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Justice Reform

WSJ Op-ed by Commonwealth Fund President Notes Potential Fallout to Repealing the ACA

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03/08/2016

... Survey results published last month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirm what many private surveys have shown: that the proportion of Americans under 65 who lack health insurance has...

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Ford’s Alexander Reviews ‘Incarceration Nations’ in Washington Post

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03/22/2016

... do good and bad things, including you. You can never know for sure what you would do in another person’s shoes.” ... the description offered in Baz Dreisinger’s intriguing new book, “Incarceration Nations.”...

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At Ford Event, de Blasio Says Cities Must Innovate Since Feds and State Won’t

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03/30/2016

... Tuesday appeared to abandon any belief that higher levels of government have any interest in helping New York City grapple with income inequality. “In the ... above us has the political will or takes the...

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Economic Security

Commonwealth Fund Article Asks: Is Primary Care the Best and Worst Job in Medicine?

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05/26/2016

... Care the Best and Worst Job in Medicine? About one-third of U.S. and U.K. primary care physicians are dissatisfied ... care outside office settings. To help uncover some of the day-to-day challenges primary...

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Casey Family Programs Contributes to Initiative in Three Cities to Beat Youth Homelessness This Year

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08/11/2016

... in Three Cities to Beat Youth Homelessness This Year For most kids, the end of summer means back-to-school shopping and hanging up swimsuits in exchange for new textbooks...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Ford and MacArthur-Backed Survey Finds That Young Voters From Newer Immigrant Families Lean More Liberal

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09/09/2016

... with families who have been in United States longer, a new GenForward poll shows. Eighty-seven percent of those age 18 to 30 who are immigrants or who have parents ... illegally as children to stay legally,...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Produces Short Documentaries Highlighting Public Art Challenge Projects In Four Regions

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09/19/2016

... the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge . Each of the three-minute shorts, which feature interviews with ... public art projects, showcases the unprecedented levels of contact and cooperation between...

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Andrus Family Fund's Peguro Praised in NCRP's Reflections on Resilience and Community Building

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09/28/2016

... Community Building “Relationships develop at the speed of trust” was an oft-repeated truism spoken at the ... Resilient Place, co-hosted by The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions and Neighborhood...

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Mastercard's Singh on How Companies Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap

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10/21/2016

... the way many companies do business. Starbucks, for example, rolls out new beverages and chooses its store locations by analyzing ... on items they've viewed or bought. So why aren't more of...

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness

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01/10/2017

... project will, among other things, help establish a state- of -the-art pediatric ophthalmic diagnostic and imaging center at New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital . ... bump into people; I try...

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How Cuomo's Special Prosecutor Order Is Playing Out, 19 Months Later

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02/28/2017

... Eric Schneiderman a special prosecutor in certain cases of civilian deaths involving police officers. At the time, much of the country was focused on several high-profile examples ... killings of...

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Statement on the Passing of David Rockefeller

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03/21/2017

Statement on the Passing of David Rockefeller With the deepest sadness, the Trustees ... David Rockefeller, on March 20, 2017 at 101 years of age. For 28 years, Mr. Rockefeller served as the Fund...

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Nonprofit Trailblazers Unite for Third Annual American Express Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit

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04/03/2017

Nonprofit Trailblazers Unite for Third Annual American Express Leadership Academy Global ... third annual Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit in New York on April 3 and 4, celebrating ten years of...

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Commonwealth Fund’s Biennial Health Insurance Survey Finds People with Medicaid Have Better Access to Health Care Than the Uninsured and Fewer Medical Bill Problems

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04/27/2017

... in some cases, better than private coverage, according to new a Commonwealth Fund report. Medicaid is currently the ... covering more than 70 million people, about 12 million of whom enrolled when 31 states...

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A Pioneer of The Philanthropic Enterprise, Newman’s Own Leads the Way For Others

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05/23/2017

A Pioneer Of The Philanthropic Enterprise, Newman’s Own Leads The Way For Others When the cocktail bar Coup–short for coup d’etat–opened in New York’s East Village in mid-April...

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Chef Massimo Bottura's First U.S. Project Will Be a Rockefeller-supported Bronx Soup Kitchen

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05/30/2017

... World’s 50 Best List in 2016, was planning to open one of his food waste-fighting soup kitchens, called Refettorios, in the Bronx with support from New York’s Italian consulate. On a recent episode of...

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Commonwealth Fund: What Might a Medicaid Work Requirement Mean?

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05/31/2017

... Trump administration has made work requirements a hallmark of its Medicaid policy proposals, including the idea in the ... likewise allows states to make having a job a requirement for gaining Medicaid...

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