City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... being taken to school in buses represent a nearly 77% increase over last year, when the city bused 2,920. The spike ...
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Report: Job Gains In NY, But Not Everywhere
Release Date:
09/11/2017
Unemployment rates are down for New York state overall, but wide swaths of upstate had fewer jobs in 2016 than in 2011, according to a new report.
Nonprofit Offers Guidance for Charities Worried About Deportation Raids
Release Date:
09/11/2017
Increased efforts by federal immigration agents to deport undocumented immigrants have nonprofit officials worried that those clients may stop seeking services for fear of being swept up in a deportation raid. President Trump’s decision to end...
Peter G. Peterson Foundation CEO Comments On Federal Debt Passing $20 Trillion For First Time
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... start unwinding those measures with regular borrowing, and increase the debt. . . Peter G. Peterson Foundation CEO ...
Middle-Class Incomes Rise, But Census Report Shows Worrying Disparities
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... household income rose to $59,039 in 2016, a 3.2 percent increase from the previous year and the second consecutive ...
'We're Trying to Go All In': Chocolate Giant Mars Pledges $1 Billion To Fight Climate Change
Release Date:
09/14/2017
The chocolate giant Mars is promising to spend close to $1 billion over the next few years fighting climate change.
A Deadly Disease Threatens To Regain Ground Deep In The African Jungle
Release Date:
09/14/2017
More than 80 percent of the world’s sleeping sickness cases today occur in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The parasitic disease is fatal if untreated, yet difficult to diagnose early.
Senate Republicans Look to Revive Effort To Repeal Obamacare By End of September
Release Date:
09/18/2017
Senate Republican leaders seem increasingly focused on reviving their effort to undo the Affordable Care Act before the end of the month, asking Congress’s nonpartisan budget analysts to fast-track consideration of a plan that would devolve federal...
Some NYC K-12 Schools Cross $50,000-a-Year Mark
Release Date:
09/19/2017
Five years ago, parents gulped when the price for attending some private K-12 schools in New York City hit $40,000 a year.
NYC Councilman to Propose Free Babysitting for Community Meetings
Release Date:
09/20/2017
New York City’s growing government may soon add one more service to the mix: free child care.
A Start-Up Slump Is a Drag on the Economy. Big Business May Be to Blame.
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... the Census Bureau reported Wednesday. It was a slight increase from the previous year, but well below the 558,000 ...
Want To Engage Millennials? Try Corporate Social Responsibility
Release Date:
09/28/2017
Millennials are becoming even more engaged in philanthropic causes in 2017 than they were in late 2016, according to Phase 1 of the Millennial Impact Report. At the same time, employers continue to search for ways to engage millennials to...
12 Innovative Post-Sandy Projects Built to Withstand Future Storms
Release Date:
10/03/2017
As sea level rise increases the impact severe storms like Superstorm Sandy have on New York, the city’s architects are designing buildings that are more resilient than even building codes require.
General Motors Is Going All Electric
Release Date:
10/03/2017
After more than a century peddling vehicles that pollute the atmosphere, General Motors is ending its relationship with gasoline and diesel.
City Council Members Still Navigating Outside Income Divestment Ahead of Deadline
Release Date:
10/05/2017
... The regulations, which were linked to a significant pay increase for all city elected officials, including a salary ...
Researchers: Supporting Teenage Girls Requires More Than Pads
Release Date:
10/06/2017
Everyone knows the old adage, “If you give a man a fish…” NHPR has a story with a new twist: “If you give a woman a menstrual pad…”
Should We Be Worried That Foreclosure Sales Are Near Recession Levels?
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... homes as of the second quarter of this year, a 4% increase over last year. Late payments on such loans, a ...
Delaware Juvenile Justice Reforms Signed into Law
Release Date:
10/13/2017
... aim to ensure juveniles have access counsel, to increase social services for youth and to divert teenagers ...
New NYSHealth Video: "Building a Healthier Brownsville"
Release Date:
11/20/2017
... with residents and local organizations in Brownsville to increase access to healthy and affordable foods and empower ...
Laura Landy, CEO and President of The Rippel Foundation Joins Grantmakers In Health Board of Directors
Release Date:
12/01/2017
... ensure quality care; lower health care costs; and increase equity, engagement, and productivity. Prior to ...