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Rockefeller Foundation-Backed Executive Survey Finds Continued Bias No. 1 Reason Women Don't Make It To The Top

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06/08/2017

Continued cultural bias was cited as the top reason for the dearth of women CEOs.

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Gender Justice

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NY Women's Foundation's Oliveira Discusses Women and Rikers in NYN Media Insights Podcast

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06/30/2017

NY Women's Foundation's Oliveira Discusses Women and Rikers in NYN Media Insights Podcast Rikers Island is known as a harsh place, but it can be particularly bad for women. In March, the New York Women’s...

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The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion

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07/28/2017

... officers with social workers on calls that involve people in the throes of a mental health crisis in an effort to calm situations that can easily move from ... have learned to de-escalate situations, and there...

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Century Foundation Fellow Argues for an "Economic Fair Housing Act" to Combat Racial Zoning

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08/04/2017

... outlawed racial zoning hardly ended racial discrimination in housing, as whites adopted biased policies like economic zoning that banned apartment buildings in areas designated for single-family homes, often...

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Trump’s Threats on Health Law Hide an Upside: Gains Made by Some Insurers

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08/29/2017

... by state regulators, the last “bare” county in America — in rural Ohio — found an insurer willing to sell health ... companies would stop offering coverage under the law in large parts of the...

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Labor Day: New York Lawmakers on The State of Labor In 2017

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08/30/2017

Labor Day: New York Lawmakers on The State of Labor In 2017 For many this year, Labor Day will serve as a ... for workers that have been achieved over the decades. Here in New York, the labor movement has notched...

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Workforce Development

Opinion: Why Can’t We Get Cities Right?

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09/05/2017

... Why Can’t We Get Cities Right? The waters are receding in Houston, and so, inevitably, is national interest. But ... a huge amount of wreckage behind, some of it invisible. In particular, we don’t yet know...

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Community Development

Opinion: The Risky Consequences Of Inclusionary Housing At Brooklyn’s Pfizer Site

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09/19/2017

... That’s the mechanism being used at the Pfizer site in Brooklyn, located in the Broadway Triangle, an area bordering the neighborhoods ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Health-Care Titan Centene Will Try to Duck Contraceptive Coverage With Pickup Of Church-Linked Provider, Manhattan Pol Warns

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09/21/2017

... Care for $3.75 billion said it will try to continue a policy for at least a year of not providing contraceptive and ... Obamacare insurer that has 1.6 million customers. Hoylman in a letter dated Sept. 18 to...

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Gender Justice

Nursing Home Evacuations Should Not Be “All or Nothing,” Says GSA Member in Senate Testimony

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09/21/2017

... Should Not Be “All or Nothing,” Says GSA Member in Senate Testimony Speaking before the U.S. Senate Special ... living communities to better serve their residents in times of disaster — and noted that...

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Aging

State Officials: N.Y. Will Help Enroll People in Insurance through Obamacare

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09/29/2017

State Officials: N.Y. Will Help Enroll People in Insurance through Obamacare ALBANY — The recent ... coverage through the Marketplace and helping them enroll in coverage is not only the right thing to do, it’s the...

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‘White Rage’ Author Kicks Off Mellon Lecture Series Aimed At Better Understanding Racism

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12/08/2017

... Carol Anderson said as she kicked off the first talk in Georgetown's Mellon Lecture Series last week. The Mellon .....

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Watch Another Video From Chasing The Dream, Supported By The JPB and Ford Foundations

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01/22/2018

... but the Trump administration is now reversing course. In this special report for PBS NewsHour Weekend, produced in partnership with public radio station WNYC , ...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Immigration

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Citigroup Sets Restrictions on Gun Sales by Business Partners

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03/23/2018

... making it the first Wall Street bank to take a stance in the divisive nationwide gun control debate. The new policy , announced Thursday, prohibits the sale of firearms to ...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation's Ninth Annual Fiscal Summit Will Outline Urgent Need for Fiscal Reset following Recent Tax and Spending Legislation

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05/01/2018

... on Thursday, May 10, at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. As campaigns for the 2018 midterm elections get underway within a rapidly changing policy environment, America's unsustainable...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds 20 Years of Sky Observations

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05/11/2018

... three-dimensional map of the Universe ever made. Early in the morning of May 10th, 1998, the observers and engineers ... camera. The telescope's mirror, 2.5 meters (8 feet) in diameter, is small by...

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Rockefeller Foundation Launches #Solvable

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06/12/2019

... of vulnerable people are solvable — and solvable in our lifetime. Without question, the key ingredient is ... the know-how to harness technology, science and innovation in ways that meaningfully improve lives...

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