No Room on a Bike Rack? Not a Problem for These Smart Bikes
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... bike companies are vying to make riding less expensive and more convenient, competing with more established bike-share programs in the process. Instead ...
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Holistic Therapy Programs May Help Pain Sufferers Ditch Opioids
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... Programs May Help Pain Sufferers Ditch Opioids Each year, more than 300 patients with chronic pain take part in a ... off pain medications during their time at Mayo. Still, more than 80 percent of the patients...
Creating A Positive Workplace Culture - A Little Kindness Goes A Long Way
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... taking a negative toll on our overall well-being. We spend more time working than we do anything else. It is becoming more important now to pay attention to how we treat each ...
How to Improve Diversity in Corporate America
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... opportunity. The face of business is changing to include more expansive types of business, companies, and startups — ... include not-for-profit companies and public organizations more interested in corporate...
Labor Day: New York Lawmakers on The State of Labor In 2017
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... workers, the recovering economy has paved the way for more generous labor contracts. Looking ahead, city and state ... to advance legislation to protect farmworkers, provide more resources for child care and...
Commonwealth Fund: How the Affordable Care Act Has Helped Women Gain Insurance and Improved Their Ability to Get Health Care
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... Get Health Care Compared with men, women on average have more interaction with the health care system over their ... insurance market in most states, women could be charged more for a health plan, or denied...
Opinion: Why Can’t We Get Cities Right?
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... released by flooding of chemical plants, waste dumps, and more . But it’s a good bet that more people will eventually die from the toxins Harvey leaves ...
With Trump Moving to End DACA, New York City Leaders Pledge Support for Students and Teachers
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals would have on the more than 30,000 New York City residents already in the ... timely message with school beginning Thursday for more than a million children. “My message...
Prodded by Advocates, City Unveils District-Wide Integration Plan for Lower East Side
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... on Tuesday revealed a plan that officials hope will spur more economic diversity in Lower East Side elementary ... adding that he expects the city to eventually do even more to promote integration in that...
Health at A Planetary Scale
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... ago, there were about 1 billion of us; today, we number more than 7 billion. We have harnessed vast amounts of ... planetary scale. The globe is warming. Oceans are becoming more acidic. Natural cycles of...
Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... Services that found that refugees brought in $63 billion more in government revenues over the past decade than they ... refugees are a major benefit to the United States, paying more in taxes than they consume...
Bloomberg Among Top Donors Who Give Largest Share of Wealth to Charity
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... The three have a close association. Mr. Buffett pledged more than $36 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ... New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg comes in third for giving more than 10 percent of...
Citi Foundation and Citi Canada Announce a $700,000 Commitment to Youth
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... launched in 2014, with a US$50 millioneffort that helped more than 100,000 young people across ten cities become ... training. Through Citi and the Citi Foundation's partners, more than 7,000 Canadian...
Senators Revise Health Bill in Last-Ditch Effort to Win Votes
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... to 2026. It indicated that Alaska would receive 3 percent more money under the bill than under current law, while Maine would get 43 percent more . . . Senators Revise Health Bill in Last-Ditch Effort to ...
Opinion: Powered by Women - Philanthropy in the Age of Trump Needs to Address Gender
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... Without a Woman and the Women's March. In record numbers, more and more of us are becoming engaged in the political process, .....
Home Health Workers: All the Work, Half the Pay
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... Chan worked piece-rate in the city's textile factories for more than a decade to support her three children after she ... of a cohort of New York home care workers that has filed more than a dozen class-...
Americans Fear Social Security Will Go Broke, Poll Shows
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... haunts the vast majority of Americans over age 50. More than three-quarters (78 percent) of future retirees in ... all these people think the current situation is just fine. More than four in five future...
Opinion: Take a Resistance Break
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... any sign of approval or support. Instead, we saw something more powerful. Three of the restaurant’s busboys paused ... Their fists were raised in silence. Their dignity was more powerful than any lever a...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Studies Make Progress In Fight Against Malaria
Release Date:
10/05/2017
... show promise in battling malaria, a disease that kills more than 400,000 people each year, mostly children ages five ... new strategies involve making Anopheles mosquitoes more resistant to malaria parasites,...
Despite Washington Drama, Pace of Health System Change Accelerates
Release Date:
10/06/2017
... people healthy. And how do you keep people healthy? To use more jargon, you address the “social determinants of ... and health insurance than you may think—and a lot more to do with addressing barriers that...