Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality
Release Date:
07/29/2016
... preference, alumni have still continued to donate in large numbers. For example, Texas A&M, which did away with ...
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Commonwealth Fund’s Biennial Health Insurance Survey Finds People with Medicaid Have Better Access to Health Care Than the Uninsured and Fewer Medical Bill Problems
Release Date:
04/27/2017
... the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The report finds that the large majority of people who have Medicaid for the full year ...
Trump’s Threats on Health Law Hide an Upside: Gains Made by Some Insurers
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... companies would stop offering coverage under the law in large parts of the country, insurers have now agreed to sell ...
Reading, Math Disparities Persist At Capital Region Schools
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... rates, every race has seen incremental progress but a large gulf persists between white and Asian students and ...
James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation Donates Art Holdings, Archives to Parrish Art Museum
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... out here.” Now, 70 years after that first summer, a large collection of works by the artists are headed to the ...
Opinion: Why Can’t We Get Cities Right?
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... was an epic disaster. And it was a disaster brought on, in large part, by bad policy. . . Opinion: Why Can’t We Get ...
Indian Women Speak Out About A Government Tax that Declares Certain Feminine Hygiene Products 'Nonessential'
Release Date:
09/08/2017
Last month, the Indian government rolled out a new tax plan — the Goods and Service Tax — labeling sanitary products "nonessential," making them eligible for a 12 percent tax. The increase in the cost of sanitary napkins will force many women...
Forecasting the Upcoming City Council Gender Imbalance
Release Date:
09/11/2017
There are currently only 13 women in the 51-seat New York City Council, a troubling 25 percent. The number is down from 18 women in the Council a few years ago. With the city’s quadrennial elections upon us, a new Council class will be inaugurated...
Prodded by Advocates, City Unveils District-Wide Integration Plan for Lower East Side
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... to match the district’s, though that will depend to a large degree on recruitment efforts and families’ ...
Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... and the Institute for Policy Studies, America’s already large racial wealth gap, far from narrowing, will grow ever ...
Health-Care Titan Centene Will Try to Duck Contraceptive Coverage With Pickup Of Church-Linked Provider, Manhattan Pol Warns
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... company affiliated with the Catholic Church and a large Obamacare insurer that has 1.6 million customers. ...
How Failure of the Obamacare Repeal Affects Consumers
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... The Republican bills would have eliminated rules requiring large employers to offer health benefits and could have ...
Opinion: Take a Resistance Break
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... and capitol insiders who don’t have to march in large numbers for their voices to be heard. I was happy the ...
Schott Foundation Report Offers Framework Providing All Children Equal Opportunity To Succeed
Release Date:
03/01/2018
... opportunity to learn. The report also highlights a large and growing body of research showing a clear connection ...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds 20 Years of Sky Observations
Release Date:
05/11/2018
... telescope standards, but powerful because it can see a large area of the sky simultaneously. Astronomers have used ...
Commonwealth Fund Releases Its 2018 Scorecard on State Health System Performance
Release Date:
05/29/2018
... vary widely across states; even within individual states, large disparities are common. Still, on balance, ...
Aetna Foundation President Discusses What it Will Take to Solve the Opioid Crisis
Release Date:
06/29/2018
In 2015, our life expectancy dropped for the first time since the height of the AIDS epidemic. That can be blamed largely on the opioid epidemic, which is plaguing communities, families, and individuals across the United States. In fact, in a single...
Henry Ford III Elected to Ford Foundation's Board of Trustees
Release Date:
02/25/2019
The Ford Foundation has elected Henry Ford III as a board member. He is the great-grandson of Edsel Ford, who created the foundation in 1936. It is the first time in more than 40 years that a Ford family member serves as a trustee.
Research Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Offers New, Solar-Powered Technology that Collects and Cleans Water from Air
Release Date:
03/18/2019
... materials designed to be "super sponges" that can retain large amounts of water. A research team led by Guihua Yu in .....
Bloomberg Awards $10 Million to Address Opioid Crisis in Michigan
Release Date:
03/17/2019
... in support of efforts in Michigan to address the large number of opioid overdose deaths in the state. Michigan ...