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Commonwealth Fund Report Finds that the GOP Health Care Act Would Reverse Gains Made by Community Hospitals

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05/05/2017

Commonwealth Fund Report Finds that the GOP Health Care Act Would Reverse ... One of the Obama administration’s big selling points in enacting the Affordable Care Act in 2010 was that by .....

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Commonwealth Fund Issues Brief on the Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access

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05/08/2017

Commonwealth Fund Issues Brief on the Effect of the Affordable Care Act on ... Among its reforms, the ACA expanded Medicaid coverage in participating states to all nonelderly adults with incomes ... to sign up for...

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Tisch Fund, NY Community Trust, Bloomberg & United Way of NYC Leaders Named Among the Most Powerful Women of 2017

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06/26/2017

Tisch Fund , NY Community Trust, Bloomberg & United Way of NYC ... fuels jobs and keeps the most vibrant yet complex city in the nation humming. Our process involved both art and ... We used those results to...

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Bloomberg-funded WHO Report: Dramatic Increase in Life-Saving Tobacco Control Policies In Last Decade

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07/20/2017

Bloomberg-funded WHO Report: Dramatic Increase in Life-Saving Tobacco Control Policies In Last Decade The latest WHO report on the global tobacco ... 2017. “Governments around the world must waste no time ...

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Zuckerberg May Sell Up to $12.8 Billion in Facebook Stock to Fund Work in Education, Science, and Advocacy

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09/25/2017

Zuckerberg May Sell Up to $12.8 Billion in Facebook Stock to Fund Work in Education, Science, and Advocacy Mark Zuckerberg ... May Sell Up to $12.8 Billion in Facebook Stock to...

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Rita Allen Foundation Supported Report Finds That Civic Tech Struggles with Sustainable Funding Despite Gains

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10/31/2017

... first major report on civic tech since a detailed study in 2013 took a broad look at the investment landscape. The newer work is a closer examination of “why startups in the field are struggling to grow and...

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Atlantic Philanthropies and Ford Foundation Funded Lynching Memorial and Slavery Museum Sets April Opening

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11/14/2017

... victims and a new museum dedicated to slavery on April 26 in Montgomery. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice recognizing 4,000 blacks lynched and tortured in America is under construction between...

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Social Justice

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“Reducing Food Loss and Food Waste” Video From The Rockefeller Foundation Funded 2017 Food Tank Summit

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11/21/2017

... Tank Summit entitled "Reducing Food Loss and Food Waste" in collaboration with the Rockefeller Foundation, ReFed, and the Fink Family Foundation at the WNYC Studios in NYC... “Reducing Food Loss and...

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Funded by The Charles H. Revson Foundation, New York Library Lends Out Ties, Briefcases, Handbags for Job Interviews

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09/24/2018

... you are - anybody could use them." The concept came to her in 2016, when Lee was teaching a free class at the library .....

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Research Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Offers New, Solar-Powered Technology that Collects and Cleans Water from Air

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03/18/2019

... it as clean, usable water. The breakthrough, described in a recent issue of the journal Advanced Materials, could be used in disaster situations, water crises or poverty-stricken ... large amounts of water. A...

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CollegePoint, An Initiative Funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Makes A Hard Decision Less Lonely

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08/15/2018

... is particularly difficult. Research shows that 1 in 4 juggle all of that — the writing, the studying, the ... — the PSAT, SAT or ACT — and they do well (scoring in the 90th percentile), and their families make...

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

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04/21/2020

New Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds Americans Suffering Health Coverage ... Along with Job Losses More than 22 million people in the U.S. have filed unemployment claims since the ... A new survey of U.S. adults by...

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Fannie E. Rippel Foundation-Funded Study Shows Younger Women Delay Seeking Help for Heart Attacks

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02/25/2015

... by the Yale School of Public Health, and published Feb. 24 in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, examined the experiences of women ranging in age from 30 to 55 years old who were...

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Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard College to Launch ‘Microcollege,’ Targeting Low-Income Applicants

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11/01/2017

Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard College to ... maximum-security inmates who beat a Harvard College team in a debate two years ago put a national spotlight on the ... Initiative. Now Bard...

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David Blumenthal, President of The Commonwealth Fund On How the New U.S. Tax Plan Will Affect Health Care

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12/21/2017

David Blumenthal, President of The Commonwealth Fund On How the New U.S. Tax Plan Will Affect Health Care The ... approved, is complex, but what it will mean for health in the United States is simple: less. It...

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Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid

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01/09/2018

Supported by The Mayday Fund , Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better ... compound that activates only that receptor, a key step in the development of new pain medications. A release from ... that the...

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Research Funded By The Russell Sage Foundation Shows Why Paid Family Leave Laws Could Hurt SNF Census

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01/11/2018

... could have an unintended negative consequence: a decline in census . The implementation of generous paid family leave (PFL) protections in California led to a significant decline in the state...

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Simons Foundation Funded Research Finds That Neural ‘Tug-Of-War’ May Explain Fragile X Learning Issues

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01/24/2018

... and autism. “These findings suggest that neural circuits in FXS may be fundamentally intact but improperly tuned, which results in inflexibility in gaining certain types of knowledge,” says...

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Research Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads to a Method to Safely Charge a Smartphone Wirelessly Using a Laser

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02/21/2018

... a smartphone wirelessly using a laser. As the team reports in a paper published online in December in the Proceedings of the Association for Computing ...

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