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

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09/20/2017

... Council, Better Gender Balance Among Chiefs of Staff The New York City Council, a 51-member body, currently includes ... 13 women, down from 18 in 2009, and that number is likely to soon fall to...

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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

The G.O.P. Bill Forces States to Build Health Systems From Scratch. That’s Hard. In 2003, ... Massachusetts agreed that the state should build a system to expand coverage to its uninsured...

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Report Finds Gaps in Access to Opioid Addiction Help on Staten Island

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09/26/2017

Report Finds Gaps in Access to Opioid Addiction Help on Staten Island New York City was in the throes of an alarming increase in ... special narcotics prosecutor, Bridget G. Brennan, decided to...

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Giving Could Plunge $13 Billion Under Tax Plan, Nonprofit Leader Says

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09/28/2017

... leaders would preserve the charitable deduction under a new tax proposal made public Wednesday, a key battle line for nonprofit leaders racing to ensure giving incentives remain intact as lawmakers try...

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Schools’ Response to Bullying Is Questioned After Fatal School Stabbing

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10/02/2017

Schools’ Response to Bullying Is Questioned After Fatal School Stabbing When ... came home Wednesday evening, he turned on the evening news to discover that a student had fatally stabbed a classmate ... history...

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Home Health Workers: All the Work, Half the Pay

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10/02/2017

... in the city's textile factories for more than a decade to support her three children after she emigrated from China ... a sweatshop just the same. Chan is part of a cohort of New York home care workers...

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How Many Big Storms Before People Abandon Coastal Cities?

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10/02/2017

... Paulo — are not coastal. The rest — Tokyo, Mumbai, New York, Shanghai, Lagos, Los Angeles, Calcutta and Buenos ... county populations increased by 39 percent between 1970 to 2010. As the population skyrockets...

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Nonprofits Initiate Recall as Mayor Cuts Their Funding

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10/05/2017

... activists have launched a recall campaign against the new mayor of Fitchburg, Wisconsin, a suburb of some 25,000 ... that serve the less affluent sections of town in order to provide raises for city employees...

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Johnson & Johnson Brings Better Sanitation to Homes in India

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10/06/2017

Johnson & Johnson Brings Better Sanitation to Homes in India Johnson & Johnson's CaringCrowd's platform is dedicated to crowdfunding to improve global public health. Its latest...

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No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. Will That Slow Its Momentum?

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10/06/2017

... swirled that states might use it as a launching pad to use measures of students’ social and emotional competencies to determine whether their schools are successful. Nearly two ... in its school accountability...

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Richard Thaler Wins Economics Nobel for Recognizing People Are Irrational

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10/10/2017

... not the most advantageous in the long term. “In order to do good economics, you have to keep in mind that people are human,” Thaler said of the basic premise of his work. When the New York...

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As Bloomberg Hammers Away at Coal, What Might Be Next for His Climate Giving?

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10/18/2017

... Bloomberg Philanthropies recently gave another $64 million to a campaign that’s closing down coal plants in the United ... headline came from the Courier-Journal in Louisville: “ New York City billionaires are...

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TED Talk: Judge Victoria Pratt on How Judges Can Show Respect

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11/14/2017

... Judge Victoria Pratt on How Judges Can Show Respect In a new TED Talk, Judge Victoria Pratt draws on her experience with Newark Community Solutions to explain the real-life impact of procedural justice. ... by...

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Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Issues Consensus Report On Diabetes In Association With The ADA

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11/22/2017

... However, despite the tremendous value of the HbA1C to clinical management, there are limitations to what the HbA1C can tell patients and physicians about ... practice, as well as in the development processes...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Finds Bacteria Play Critical Role In Driving Colon Cancers

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02/02/2018

... colon cancer harbor two bacterial species that collaborate to encourage development of the disease, and the same species ... of malignant tumors. Together, these findings could lead to new...

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An Interview With Kavitha Mediratta, Executive Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity Initiative Launched by Atlantic Philanthropies

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02/14/2018

... about that question and what her program is doing to support creative leaders dedicated to dismantling anti-black racism in the United States and ... Atlantic and before that led the education program at the...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Yields Promising Results for Genetic Weapons Against Malaria

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02/16/2018

... modification that boosts mosquito immune systems. Two new papers by researchers at the Malaria Research Institute ... carrying the malaria parasite. One promising way to prevent malaria, in addition to...

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The United Hospital Fund Releases Report on Positive Impact of Home Health Care

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04/30/2018

... are discharged from inpatient care. Such refusals can lead to higher rates of readmission to the hospital and a lower quality of life. Although ... by Kathyrn Bowles, PhD, of the Visiting Nurse Service of...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Reveals State Rankings on the Nation’s Best Health Care

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05/08/2018

... United States declined for the first time in decades, a new report is out detailing which states have the best and ... scorecard on May 3 looking at each state’s ability to deliver medical care to...

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