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Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week

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09/06/2017

... 12, Citi Bike operator Motivate will begin installing 140 new stations and 2,000 bikes in Astoria, Crown Heights, ... and Harlem up to 130th Street, marking the final phase of planned expansion for the four-...

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Community Development

For Teachers Working Through DACA, a Bittersweet Start to the School Year

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09/07/2017

... liquids, gases and solids. In between science classes at a charter school in East New York, he broke down at his desk. The government had just ... three years that I have been teaching was...

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Education

The Promise of Skills-Based Volunteering

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09/07/2017

The Promise of Skills-Based Volunteering ver the past decade, businesses of all kinds have become much more socially aware and active. ... as corporate giving and volunteer programs, as well as new...

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US States Embrace Baby Boxes

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09/08/2017

... Boxes Several states are adopting the Finnish practice of distributing “baby boxes” to expectant parents—and ... families about safe sleep for infants. Finland has one of the lowest infant mortality rates in...

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Indian Women Speak Out About A Government Tax that Declares Certain Feminine Hygiene Products 'Nonessential'

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09/08/2017

... Last month, the Indian government rolled out a new tax plan — the Goods and Service Tax — labeling ... eligible for a 12 percent tax. The increase in the cost of sanitary napkins will force many women already...

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Gender Justice

A Brooklyn Food Festival Dishes Out Extra Helpings of Culinary Theory

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09/11/2017

A Brooklyn Food Festival Dishes Out Extra Helpings of Culinary Theory During the course of the year, New Yorkers have no shortage of food events to attend. But ... held. To...

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Food Systems

Harrowing Journeys: Children and Youth on The Move Across The Mediterranean Sea, At Risk of Trafficking and Exploitation

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09/12/2017

... and Youth on The Move Across The Mediterranean Sea, At Risk of Trafficking and Exploitation Young migrants and refugees ... come from sub-Saharan Africa. These findings come from a new UNICEF...

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International/Foreign Affairs

Health at A Planetary Scale

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09/14/2017

Health at A Planetary Scale The human footprint on the earth has ... or two. Two hundred years ago, there were about 1 billion of us; today, we number more than 7 billion. We have ... planet are so profound that...

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Here's What's In Bernie Sanders' 'Medicare For All' Bill

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09/14/2017

... — his attempt to push single-payer health care, long one of his favorite causes. In a Wednesday op-ed in the New York Times, the former presidential candidate wrote about ...

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

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09/15/2017

... Republicans are fighting back with familiar critiques of such a single-payer system. Mr. Sanders argued for his ... for all” legislation in an Op-Ed published in The New York Times on Wednesday, while his...

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Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers

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09/18/2017

... Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers At a time when the United States is in the grip of an opioid epidemic, many insurers are limiting access to ... less attention. That may be changing,...

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Study: Giving Leads to Happiness

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09/18/2017

... is good for us has been scant, even as the benefits of selfishness are obvious. Recently, however, a neurological ... if the generous act is small or only imagined. Scientists at the University of...

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Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books

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09/19/2017

Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books For all of Sunset Park’s celebrated taquerias, dim sum parlors and ... business-planning classes. Parents and children alike sat at banks of...

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Housing and Homelessness

The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime

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09/19/2017

The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime The day before students returned to class this month, New York City officials announced that all 1.1...

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As Global Obesity Rises, Teasing Apart Its Causes Grows Harder

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09/19/2017

... but in some contexts it’s easier than others — say, at a program for overweight children, or an obesity clinic, two places that Andrew Jacobs, a reporter with The New York Times’s health desk, visited to...

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

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09/20/2017

At the City Council, Better Gender Balance Among Chiefs of Staff The New York City Council, a 51-member body, currently includes ...

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Gender Justice

The G.O.P. Bill Forces States to Build Health Systems From Scratch. That’s Hard.

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09/21/2017

... to find uninsured residents and persuade them to enroll. A new health care bill before the Senate would require every ... in the country to make a similar soup-to-nuts evaluation of how they’d like their...

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

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09/25/2017

... classes in Brooklyn. Eduardo Garcia, 22, lifts weights at the gym, in between classes and two jobs. Apolinar Islas, 34, who came to New York from Mexico when he was 15, said he walks around in ... and tries to...

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Immigration

7 Biggest Trends to Emerge from Global Goals Week

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09/25/2017

... from Global Goals Week No single story can encapsulate one of the most frenetic and wide-ranging weeks on the global ... its commitment to use digital payments, just as a minister of health announces ...

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