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Policy Uncertainty over Affordable Care Act Means Less Time for Oversight of Premium Hikes, Commonwealth Fund Says

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05/23/2017

... whether to continue to fund the Affordable Care Act’ s subsidies to defray health plan cost-sharing for low-income ...

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Conrad Hilton Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Noted Among Philanthropic Heroes of Refugee Crisis

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05/24/2017

... of this crisis, that help isn’t coming at the scale that' s needed. At the end of 2016, the U.N., along with over 240 .....

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NYS Health Foundation Co-Authors Column on Blocking Immigrants from Essential Services

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06/01/2017

... immigrants are vital to the health of New York City’ s economy and neighborhoods. The critical contributions of ... City residents are foreign-born, and hundreds of those protect our neighborhoods as members...

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New York Health Foundation

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NY State Health Releases Policy Recommendations to Address Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems in NY State

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06/12/2017

... or federal regulations are applied to ENDS products to protect consumers, especially among youth. NYSHealth awarded ...

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New York Health Foundation

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Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative is Calling on Dads With a New "Men of Action" Campaign

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07/11/2017

Simons Foundation' s SPARK Initiative is Calling on Dads With a New "Men of ... campaign to highlight the lengths these dads would go to protect and care for their children. The campaign addresses .....

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Science

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NYPD Boss James O’Neill Vacated Guilty Verdict Against Officer Accused Of Using Banned Chokehold: Sources

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08/29/2017

... The secret is out — at least part of it. The city’ s top cop recently overturned a guilty verdict against an ... James O’Neill rejected the administrative judge’ s findings last month. It was the first time O’...

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Justice Reform

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

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08/30/2017

... optimism that they’ll be able to advance legislation to protect farmworkers, provide more resources for child care ...

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Workforce Development

Bad Landlords Poised To Profit On De Blasio Plan To Turn Rent-Stabilized Buildings Into Long-Term Homeless Shelters

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08/30/2017

... them as family shelters (a tactic referenced in the mayor' s February homelessness game plan). Advocates say this will ... landlords who already benefit from the cluster program' s large payouts and...

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Housing and Homelessness

Democratic Group Plans Attacks on G.O.P. Efforts to Undermine Obama Health Care Law

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09/05/2017

... repeal the law, considered former President Barack Obama’ s most consequential domestic legislation, a group called Protect Our Care said it intends to spend more than $1 ...

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Opinion: Why Can’t We Get Cities Right?

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09/05/2017

... of chemical plants, waste dumps, and more. But it’ s a good bet that more people will eventually die from the ... if you trust the current administration to handle Harvey’ s aftermath right, I’ve got a degree...

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Community Development

New York Business Coalition Denounces Trump Move On DACA

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09/06/2017

... Denounces Trump Move On DACA The organization of the city' s largest businesses, Mayor Bill de Blasio and other New York ... City was part of widespread outcry following the president' s decision to...

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For Teachers Working Through DACA, a Bittersweet Start to the School Year

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09/07/2017

Jaime Ballesteros tried to contain his tears on Tuesday while teaching Brooklyn sixth graders about liquids, gases and solids. In between science classes at a charter school in East New York, he broke down at his desk.

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Education

As Flood Risks Rise, Trump’s Executive Order Jeopardizes Our Infrastructure and Communities

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09/12/2017

As Flood Risks Rise, Trump’ s Executive Order Jeopardizes Our Infrastructure and ... missed the original intent of President Donald Trump’ s news conference in New York last month— the one in which ... highways,...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Community Development

Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid

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09/13/2017

Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’ s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid The clock is ticking. Community ... until October 30 to vote on the de Blasio administration’ s proposed rezoning of Jerome Avenue in the...

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Community Development

De Blasio Fails To Give Public School Teachers Maternity Leave

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09/13/2017

The New York City Department of Education (DOE) does not offer paid parental leave for union workers, nor does the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) union provide their members with any parental leave benefits, Kings County Politics has learned.

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Gender Justice

Ms. Foundation Centers Black Women, Nonconforming People and Fem(me)s in Campaigns for Expanded Sanctuary Cities

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09/15/2017

... Centers Black Women, Nonconforming People and Fem(me) s in Campaigns for Expanded Sanctuary Cities As the Trump ... Black Women, Girls, Nonconforming People and Fem(me) s in Campaigns for Expanded Sanctuary...

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Gender Justice

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Federal Judge Urges Trump Administration to Push Back DACA Deadline

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09/15/2017

A federal judge in Brooklyn on Thursday urged the Trump administration to extend its deadline for young undocumented immigrants to apply to stay in the United States under an Obama-era program that the White House recently promised to end.

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Back-and-Forth on DACA Leaves Young Immigrants ‘Just Dangling’

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09/25/2017

Recipients of DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, program have felt a whiplash of emotions since Sept. 5, when, after months of uncertainty, the Trump administration announced it would be ending the program.

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Children, Youth and Families

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How Failure of the Obamacare Repeal Affects Consumers

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09/27/2017

Obamacare repeal is dead, again. But the months of Republican attacks on the health law will still have consequences for some consumers.

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