Will New Rockefeller Foundation President Break or Reinforce its Mold?
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... Donald Trump wants to see USAID merged with the U.S. State Department and essentially gutted. Cutting foreign aid ...
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Opinion: New York’s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... now happening in New York. In July, two weeks after the State Legislature reauthorized mayoral control of the public ...
NYS Health Foundation Unveils Health Care Cost Transparency Website
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... website, will empower New Yorkers from across the State to plan for and manage their medical and dental ...
With DSH Cuts Looming, Cuomo Must Decide How to Allot Fewer Dollars
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... and the largest cut, in terms of dollars, for any state . The Medicaid DSH program is meant to help hospitals ...
NYS Health Foundation Finds Uninsured Rate Fell by 36 Percent After ACA Implemented
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... Rate Fell by 36 Percent After ACA Implemented New York State Health Foundation, RAND Corporation and the Robert ...
Federal Judge Urges Trump Administration to Push Back DACA Deadline
Release Date:
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.
43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says
Release Date:
09/18/2017
... students are not getting the sex education required by the state , according to a report released on Thursday by New York ...
J.J. Watt's Hurricane Relief Fundraising Closes at More Than $37 Million
Release Date:
09/18/2017
It started as a relatively modest (well, relative to where it ended up) organizing of a charitable endeavor, born partially out of a kind heart and partially out of desperation when he couldn't be there to help in person. And in the end, it can be...
New Push to Replace Obamacare Reflects High Stakes For Republicans
Release Date:
09/19/2017
A final GOP effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act burst into view this week in the Senate, where leaders began pressuring rank-and-file Republicans with the hope of voting on the package by the end of the month.
These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It?
Release Date:
09/19/2017
A tale of Paris climate agreement supporters, political spending and unintended consequences.
Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab
Release Date:
09/19/2017
Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain -- The International Brain Lab (IBL), launched on September 19, combines 21 of the foremost neuroscience laboratories in the United States and Europe into a giant collaboration that will...
If Congress Doesn’t Act Fast on Children’s Health Insurance, Millions Could Be at Risk
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... be an awful lot of work that would need to happen at the state level” should the funding not be renewed, says Ben ...
With Its 'No Dancing' Law Verging On Repeal, New York Legitimizes Its Nightlife
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... (D-37), a Bed-Stuy native first elected to the New York State Assembly at the age of 26 and currently in his first ...
Pound Foolish
Release Date:
09/22/2017
Food banks must reject measuring their impact by pounds of food distributed and instead promote access to nutritious food.
Back-and-Forth on DACA Leaves Young Immigrants ‘Just Dangling’
Release Date:
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.
Open Society Research Looks at New Technology Predicting Recidivism Without Being Racist
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... post cash bail, you’ll await trial in a jail cell on State Road. Good luck. The current process of assigning bail ...
Opinion: Construction Safety Bill Would Hurt Minority Workers
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... leaders and advocacy groups like the NAACP New York State and One Hundred Black Men of New York to send that ...
The Return Of Hookworm And The Limits Of Public Health Philanthropy
Release Date:
09/27/2017
The rates hookworm infection found in Lowndes County, AL—one of the poorest counties in the state, three-quarters of whose residents are African-American (as were all of those tested in the study)—have not improved much from levels a century ago.
How Failure of the Obamacare Repeal Affects Consumers
Release Date:
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.
Opinion: A Cash Guarantee for All Has Philanthropy Buzzing
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... while in June, Hawaii became the first American state to commit to evaluating the idea. Scotland and India ...