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Improving Health Care Is Billionaire Peterson’s Next Mission

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11/24/2014

... debt reduction, is now taking aim at some $800 billion in annual waste in the nation’s health-care system . The billionaire’s New York-based Peter G. ...

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City & State OpEd Pushes for Coding to Fulfill Language Requirement in Public Schools

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06/29/2015

... OpEd Pushes for Coding to Fulfill Language Requirement in Public Schools At a time when the public and private ... is struggling to fill innumerable open positions. Jobs in computing fields are among the...

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Technology

Surdna Foundation Invites LOIs for Environmental Infrastructure Programs

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09/10/2015

... systems of urban areas and their surrounding areas in ways that maximize positive impacts and minimize negative ... and equitable development patterns, energy efficiency in the built environment, urban water...

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Commonwealth Fund Supported Study on Task-Shifting from Physicians to Nurses in Europe, U.S., Other Countries

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10/27/2015

... Supported Study on Task-Shifting from Physicians to Nurses in Europe, U.S. Faced with physician shortages, long wait ... to nurses with advanced training. For a study published in Health Policy, researcher...

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Century Foundation Report: Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance

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03/30/2016

... by TCF senior fellow Andrew Stettner, our current UI system is facing a funding crisis that has made the safety net weaker than any time in its history. In the report, Stettner outlines a...

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Economic Security

Peterson Center on Healthcare Supports New Initiative to Forecast Trends in U.S. Healthcare Spending

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04/19/2016

... on Healthcare Supports New Initiative to Forecast Trends in U.S. Healthcare Spending The Peterson Center on Healthcare ... to identify past drivers of U.S. healthcare spending in order to better forecast...

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UJA-Federation of NY CEO Gives Tips on Teaching Youth about the Holocaust

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05/04/2016

... when pictures emerged last month of partying teens in New Jersey engaging in a shocking beer pong game called “Jews versus Nazis” ... insensitivity will not be ignored. The Princeton school system...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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With Help from Helmsley, Caltech Researchers May Have Discovered a Cause of Crohn’s Disease

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05/09/2016

... Disease The community of beneficial bacteria that live in our intestines, known as the gut microbiome, are important for the development and function of the immune system . There has been growing evidence that...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Research to Prevent Blindness Announces Low Vision Research Awardees

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06/13/2016

... Research Awardees Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB), in partnership with the Lions Clubs International Foundation ... Sight Foundation (RDPFS), has announced the first grantees in its $1.2 million, two-...

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Gap Foundation Supports Advancements in New Ecosystems for Learning

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11/14/2016

Gap Foundation Supports Advancements in New Ecosystems for Learning Collective Shift, an ... will allow both organizations to further their work in creating new ecosystems for learning. LRNG was launched ...

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United Hospital Fund Honors 31 Health Care Trustees

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05/02/2017

... affordable care, and a financially sound health care system , serving the needs of diverse communities and ...

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Senate’s Obamacare Fixes Would Build on Heavy Lifting by States

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09/07/2017

... busy bickering over repealing the health law, officials in red and blue states worked frantically to soothe anxious ... and insulate their markets from the ceaseless chaos in Washington. The result is an...

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Mayor Targets 14,500 Buildings to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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09/15/2017

... of buildings larger than 25,000 square feet to invest in improvements, including retrofitting heating and cooling systems, roofs and windows in order to reach energy-efficiency targets by 2030. If ...

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Charter-School Operators, Feeling Pressured, Seek New Direction at Symposium

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09/25/2017

... upstarts with good ideas to shake up the U.S. education system one school at a time. But some backers of the model ... expects to gather about 350 educators and advocates in Queens on Oct. 12 and 13. . ...

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How Much Time Was Spent on Subway? M.T.A. Can Now Tell You

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09/26/2017

... the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced a new system for both tracking delays on the subway as well as ...

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Community Development

New MIF/Hewlett Foundation Webinars Explore How Funders Can Fight Misinformation

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09/27/2017

... Knight Foundations’ collaboration with Democracy Fund in support of CUNY’s News Integrity Initiative, to Craig Newmark and others’ investment in Poynter’s fact-checking initiative, many in...

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Mellon Foundation Makes the Business Case for Humanities Education

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09/29/2017

... grant is the first of its kind pairing a community college system with a flagship public university and it explicitly ... humanities collaboration. Labor shortages and skill gaps in New Hampshire have limited...

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Economic Security

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12 Innovative Post-Sandy Projects Built to Withstand Future Storms

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10/03/2017

... building codes require. There’s even a homegrown rating system for New York’s coastal buildings called the ... The guidelines, which the Waterfront Alliance launched in 2015, will soon go national, the...

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With Federal Cuts to Hospitals, Cuomo Suggests New York City Step Up

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10/03/2017

... to the state’s already overworked public health care system . The cut came as a result of a lack of action by ...

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