Surdna-Funded Study Calls for Targeted Federal Policies to Create Quality Jobs
Release Date:
05/09/2017
... in the creation of quality jobs are needed, a report from Pacific Community Ventures finds. Funded by the Surdna ...
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The Rockefeller Brothers Fund: A 19th Century Fortune Tackles 21st Century Problems
Release Date:
05/17/2017
... Yorker, CNN, The Guardian–by announcing plans to divest from fossil fuels; the decision to stop investing in oil and ...
NY Community Trust to Assist More New Yorkers on the Path to Citizenship
Release Date:
05/22/2017
... "The New York story is written by immigrants, who come from all over the world seeking a better life for themselves ... times, we are sending a clear message – we welcome you into the New York family,...
Doris Duke Foundation Awards 17 Physician Scientists DDCF’s 2017 Clinical Scientist Development Awards
Release Date:
07/27/2017
... Awards of $495,000 each over three years. Selected from a highly competitive pool of 196 applicants by a panel ... million to physician scientists between one and five years into their first faculty...
NY State Health Foundation: Kids Could Start a Ceasefire in Health Care Wars
Release Date:
08/14/2017
... set to expire on September 30, 2017—just about six weeks from now. Today, 8.9 million children in the United ...
Mayor de Blasio Signs Sweeping Legislation to Curb Smoking, Tobacco Usage
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... 2020. While smoking rates in New York City have declined from 21.5 percent in 2002 to 14.3 percent in 2015, the city ...
Better Understanding Business Models in the Nonprofit Sector
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... tradeoffs leaders wrestle with every day. 2016 research from Bridgespan sought to understand: what really are the ...
Down to the Wire: Indecision on ACA Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments Creates Confusion for States
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... This projection is consistent with similar estimates from the Kaiser Family Foundation and insurers’ own ... Once rates are finalized by states, insurers are locked into them for the full calendar year. .....
Peterson Foundation On New Tax Reform Framework
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... today on the published release of a tax reform framework from leaders in Congress and the administration: “A ...
Why Oklahoma has the Highest Female Incarceration Rate in the Country
Release Date:
10/06/2017
... Stephens County, a mostly rural area where Allen is from , had the third-highest rate of women in prison. Allen is ...
Russell Sage Foundation Supported Studies Explore How Affordable Health Care Reduces Poverty and Payday Borrowing
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... introduced a single-payer “Medicare for all” bill into the S enate with sixteen co-sponsors. Both pieces of ... develop the first poverty measure in the US that takes into account the need for health care and...
George Soros Transfers Billions to Open Society Foundations
Release Date:
10/18/2017
... disclosed only on Tuesday, has transformed Open Society into the second-biggest philanthropic organization in the ... and efforts to protect people in the United States from what it described as “a national...
New Study Funded By The Peterson Center On Healthcare Reveals Healthcare Spending Rose By Nearly $1 Trillion Between 1996 and 2013
Release Date:
11/13/2017
... (variety and complexity) of services. Important takeaways from the study include: Healthcare spending increased 80 ...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Sloan Digital Sky Survey Will Map The Entire Sky
Release Date:
11/20/2017
... with mapping the entire sky following a $16 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The grant will kickstart ...
Mario Luis Small Joins Russell Sage Foundation Board of Trustees
Release Date:
11/27/2017
... Charter School. He obtained his Ph.D. in sociology in 2001 from Harvard University. Mario Luis Small Joins Russell Sage ...
Edwin Gould Foundation Supporter Online Tool Quill Connect Helps Students Become Better Writers
Release Date:
11/29/2017
... series of algorithms that can distinguish strong sentences from weak ones.That is where machine learning comes in. The ...
New Research Supported By Simons Foundation Points to Cellular Roots of Autism
Release Date:
12/05/2017
... genetic model of autism, using neurons created in the lab from patients’ own skin cells. Their experiments suggest ...
Barbara Raab and Farai Chideya of the Ford Foundation Noted As Women Who Shall Lead In The News Industry
Release Date:
12/18/2017
... are at the agitation of women and men who demand better from our colleagues. When the dust settles in 2018, more ...
Report Funded by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation Finds That California Traffic Fines Prey on Poor
Release Date:
01/08/2018
... in crippling debt for the least fortunate Californians, from whom traffic courts have difficulty collecting any fees ... 16 times more likely to book African Americans and Latinos into jail for an offense...
New Tax Law Might Force Newman's Own to Put Itself up for Sale
Release Date:
01/10/2018
... past Jan. 19. Newman's Own had hoped to tuck a solution into the Republicans' sweeping tax plan that passed late last ... in the Senate. Previous attempts to exempt Newman's Own from the hefty...