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As 12 Early Community Schools Face Funding Cuts, Advocates Question City’s Long-term Commitment

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06/17/2016

... skirmish centers on a dozen community schools that used state grants to finance after-school programs, tutoring, and ... $6 million expires at the end of June — even though state officials said Monday that the...

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Century Foundation Fellow Proposes Post-Obama Syrian-U.S. Relations Strategy

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08/22/2016

... the conflict can be contained, the meltdown of the Syrian state has sent wave after wave of chaos into the wider world ... like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Israel and the threat of state meltdown and regional...

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Commonwealth Fund: Why and How to Avoid High-Risk Pools for Americans with Preexisting Conditions

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06/05/2017

The American Health Care Act (AHCA)—the U.S. House of Representatives’ bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—would allow states to apply for waivers to reduce existing consumer protections and provide funding for states to set up...

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Trump to Discuss Hudson Tunnel Project With New York and New Jersey Leaders

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09/07/2017

President Trump has invited top officials from New York and New Jersey to the White House on Thursday, including Senators Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand and Govs. Andrew M. Cuomo and Chris Christie, to discuss the future of a...

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Community Development

The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime

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09/19/2017

... with a free daily lunch. The move came a few months after state Senator Liz Krueger and state Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon introduced a bill to ... — and, more specifically, lunch shaming — across the ...

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Food Systems

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

... Of Church-Linked Provider, Manhattan Pol Warns Manhattan state Sen. Brad Hoylman has written a letter to state regulators expressing concern that the company ... customers. Hoylman in a letter dated Sept. 18...

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Gender Justice

New Order Indefinitely Bars Almost All Travel From Seven Countries

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09/25/2017

President Trump on Sunday issued a new order indefinitely banning almost all travel to the United States from seven countries, including most of the nations covered by his original travel ban, citing threats to national security posed by letting...

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Immigration

Senators Revise Health Bill in Last-Ditch Effort to Win Votes

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09/25/2017

... extra money for an unnamed “high-spending low-density state ,” a last-minute change seemingly aimed at Alaska and ... no. Mr. Cassidy circulated a table on Sunday showing the state -by- state...

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Commentary from The Century Foundation: Women’s Underrepresentation in Politics: No, It’s Not Just an Ambition Gap

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09/25/2017

... Council and the underrepresentation of women in local and state governments nationwide. They are correct in their ... large city governments are comprised of women; at the state level, women also make up about...

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Gender Justice

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Cuomo Says Special Session Might Be Necessary to Allocate Public Hospital Funding

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10/04/2017

... Public Hospital Funding Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday the state would be holding onto federal funding that helps offset ... funding by the end of the year, a special session of the state Legislature might be...

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New York’s Graduation Rate Could Drop Under New Federal Education Law

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10/05/2017

... Rate Could Drop Under New Federal Education Law New York state ’s high school graduation rate may take a hit due to ... be forced to lower its graduation rate or report separate state and federal rates... New...

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NYS Health Foundation Challenges Philanthropy to Do more to Fix our Flawed Health Care System

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01/12/2018

... effort to make the Certificate of Need process in New York State more consumer-friendly and transparent, so that ... residents are in the room and able to comment when the state authorizing body is considering...

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NYS Health Foundation and The Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy, Release New Reports on Strengthening Nutrition Education for New Yorkers

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01/17/2018

... very little research has been done on how New York State and New York City currently support, implement, and ... that currently support nutrition education at the City and State levels. Both the City report...

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New York Health Foundation

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Open Society Names Alethia E. Jones New Head of Fellowship Program

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12/05/2018

... 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the largest multi- state health care union local in the United States, where she ... She served on the faculty of the University at Albany ( State University of New...

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Bloomberg Awards $10 Million to Address Opioid Crisis in Michigan

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03/17/2019

... address the large number of opioid overdose deaths in the state . Michigan is the second state (after Pennsylvania) selected to participate in a ...

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