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Opinion: With Or Without DACA, New York Must Step Up For Immigrant Communities

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09/05/2017

Opinion: With Or Without DACA, New York Must Step Up For Immigrant Communities I came to the ... I came here to join my parents, who had already been in the U.S. for years, having left our home country because...

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Opinion: Congestion Pricing Won't Solve New York's Transportation Woes

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09/06/2017

Opinion: Congestion Pricing Won't Solve New York's Transportation Woes Governor Andrew Cuomo’s recent vague interest in congestion pricing as a solution to problems at the MTA may give...

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Community Development

Twin Megastorms Have Scientists Fearing This May Be The New Normal

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09/07/2017

Twin Megastorms Have Scientists Fearing This May Be The New Normal One week after the record deluge in Texas, the biggest hurricane ever measured in the ... is tearing through the Caribbean...

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New Research Links Increased Minimum Wage to Reduced Child Maltreatment

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09/13/2017

New Research Links Increased Minimum Wage to Reduced Child ... families out of poverty and reduce income equality, but a new study contends that a rise in...

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Albany, Glens Falls among Regions Adding Jobs in New York

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09/15/2017

Albany, Glens Falls among Regions Adding Jobs in New York The Albany-Schenectady-Troy, New York, metro area added 400 private-sector jobs in August, up 0.1 percent from August...

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Workforce Development

New Release From NY Foundation's 'Engage to Change' Series on Neighbors Together

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09/19/2017

New From NY Foundation's 'Engage to Change' Series on ... to Change comes out of discussions with organizations and a mapping process to catalog the varied modes of doing the ... groups worked with...

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Opinion: New York City’s Runaway Homeless Youth Deserve Better Services

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09/28/2017

Opinion: New York City’s Runaway Homeless Youth Deserve Better ... For most young people, turning 21 is ceremonious. It's a rite of passage into adulthood celebrated with spirits and ... Per existing law,...

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Housing and Homelessness

New York Landlord Fined $500,000 in Tenant Harassment Probe

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09/28/2017

New York Landlord Fined $500,000 in Tenant Harassment Probe A ...

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Housing and Homelessness

New Census Figures Offer Hope in Buffalo's Fight Against Child Poverty

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10/02/2017

New Census Figures Offer Hope in Buffalo's Fight Against Child Poverty While poverty remains a big problem in Buffalo, new census figures show significant...

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Disabled Parents Sue New York City Over Child Removals

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10/10/2017

Disabled Parents Sue New York City Over Child Removals Shantell lifted her ... she smiled. Then, she locked her long arms as if to make a swing and swayed the toddler back and forth. It was the ... three children...

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Disabilities

Total Health Costs of Industrial Food Systems Are “Staggering,” Says New Report

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10/10/2017

... of Industrial Food Systems Are “Staggering,” Says New Report A new report by international experts draws significant ... around the world,” from respiratory diseases to a...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Food Systems

How Propel Capital is Charting New Paths For Venture Philanthropy in Progressive Organizing

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12/12/2017

How Propel Capital is Charting New Paths For Venture Philanthropy in Progressive Organizing Last week, the fund launched Propel Democracy, a new $5 million effort that seeks...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Civic Engagement

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Simons Investigators Awarded 2018 Breakthrough Prize, New Horizons Prize

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12/15/2017

Simons Investigators Awarded 2018 Breakthrough Prize, New Horizons Prize Three Simons Investigators were honored at ... Breakthrough Prizes, which recognize top achievements in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics...

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Education

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New York Women's Foundation Launches Fund to Support MeToo Movement

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05/10/2018

New York Women's Foundation Launches Fund to Support MeToo ... Movement Tarana Burke and her MeToo movement are getting a financial boost for their work fighting sexual violence. ... sexual violence,...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Carnegie- Funded Report Analyzes Public Support for Charter Schools in New Orleans

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06/01/2018

... Funded Report Analyzes Public Support for Charter Schools in New Orleans The 2018 Perceptions of Public Education in New ... 50 percent of those without children. The poll...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Research to Prevent Blindess Finds New Clues to Vision Loss in Macular Degeneration

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09/02/2015

Research to Prevent Blindess Finds New Clues to Vision Loss in Macular Degeneration Scientists have identified a pathway that leads to the formation of atypical blood ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Century Foundation President Comments on New Proposal Offering Debt Forgiveness

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07/22/2016

Century Foundation President Comments on New Proposal Offering Debt Forgiveness What makes you a public servant? For the purposes of the federal student ... Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), would allow borrowers who work...

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Economic Security

Sloan Foundation Funds New App and TV Series Focusing on Science

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07/27/2016

Sloan Foundation Funds New App and TV Series Focusing on Science Real science is exploding in popular entertainment – and a TV series, "Science Goes to the Movies," feeds the growing .....

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Simons Foundation Gives $1.5M to Explore New Approaches to Data Mining

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08/01/2016

Simons Foundation Gives $1.5M to Explore New Approaches to Data Mining It takes a well-trained eye to spot an irregular heartbeat in the peaks and valleys of an electrocardiogram. The same ...

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