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Tow Foundation Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’s Struggling Newspaper of Record

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01/12/2016

Owner H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest donated the entire Philadelphia Media Network, which runs the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com, to the nonprofit Institute for Journalism in New Media, part of the Philadelphia Foundation. The institute...

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Guardian: Are Gates and Rockefeller Using Their Influence to Set Agenda in Poor States?

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01/19/2016

... the UN and other international organisations, says the report by the independent Global Policy Forum, which monitors ... to extend their influence to poorer countries, say the report ’s authors. . . Guardian:...

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Mortality Rates for Middle-Aged Whites Not Just About Drugs, Suicide, Says Commonwealth Fund

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02/01/2016

Recent research has called attention to an unexpected rise in death rates among middle-aged, white Americans between 1999-2014. The especially broad reach of these negative mortality trends suggests there is an urgent need for further investigation...

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Peterson Foundation Cited in 'Public Worry Over Budget Easing'

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02/10/2016

... downgraded the budget outlook in its latest annual report in January. In that report , the CBO said the deficit was set to widen in 2016 for ...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)

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02/11/2016

... educational innovation: school integration. A new report from The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank, ... and argues that more schools should be following suit. The report was accompanied by another...

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Wallace Foundation Study Looks at Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth

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09/30/2016

... low-income families and those from high-income families, a report from the Wallace Foundation and the RAND Corporation finds. The report , Learning From Summer: Effects of Voluntary Summer ...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds that Repealing Obamacare Could Cost 3 Million Jobs

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01/06/2017

... that would extend far beyond the health care industry. The report was released Thursday by the Commonwealth Fund and ... America an estimated 2.6 million jobs in 2019 alone, the report said. And these losses...

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Novo Foundation's Jesenia Santana Discusses the Dismissal of Domestic Violence and Its Effects in the Criminal Court System

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03/09/2017

For decades, domestic violence survivors have been criminalized, prosecuted, and imprisoned for acts carried out by their abusive partners.

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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

... and their schools... Check out the recently published report here . Century Foundation Fellow Argues for an ...

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Sloan, Skoll Foundations & Carnegie Support PBS NewsHour Exploratiopn of Future of Higher Education

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08/23/2017

... NewsHour’s reporting team and partners at the Hechinger Report , American Public Media and Inside Higher Ed. To dig ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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A DeVos Speech on Title IX Heightens Advocates’ Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent

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09/07/2017

On Wednesday, the U.S. Education Department confirmed that the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, would appear at George Mason University on Thursday to make a "major policy address on Title IX enforcement."

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

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09/13/2017

... of good jobs for local residents, among other concerns. A report produced by Community Boards 4 and 5 last year ...

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

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09/15/2017

... Black women and gender nonconforming people in a new report , Centering Black Women, Girls, Nonconforming People ... have called for the creation of “freedom cities.” In a report released today, the National...

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Many Students Around the World Can’t Read or Add, World Bank Says

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09/27/2017

... Bank warned in its flagship annual economic development report . “Hundreds of millions of children reach young ... without even the most basic life skills,” write the report ’s authors, Deon Filmer and Halsey...

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Disparities in Health of NYC Latino Populations

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09/28/2017

... compared with other city residents, according to a new report released Wednesday from the New York City Department ...

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Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food Safety

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10/04/2017

President Trump sure is blasé about making America’s food safer.

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Food Systems

Rita Allen Foundation Supported Research Details Consequences of Kansas’ Lifetime Property Tax Exemptions on Local School Districts

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03/02/2018

Deemed one of the top six journalism collaborations of 2017 by MediaShift, an investigation by Flatland (Kansas City public TV station KCPT’s digital magazine) and the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting shed light on the consequences of...

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Open Society Foundations Along with Collaboration of Funders Highlight Immigrants’ Vital Role in Ohio Communities

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03/16/2018

... organizations, funded a Cleveland State University report , Our Pathway to a Brighter Future: Ohio's New ... Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs and the report 's author. 'By making...

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