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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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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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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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OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros

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11/27/2017

... to Eastern Europe; and a requirement that every EU member state pay 9 million Hungarian forint ($33,772) in mandatory state aid per immigrant... OSF Denounces Hungarian ...

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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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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Haitians and Afghans in Crisis: Lessons for Rapid Resettlement

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Join us for a discussion of how advocacy groups and service providers are serving new arrivals, the relevant government policies and programs, and the role of philanthropy in helping those who arrive today—and improving the infrastructure for those...

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NYCT, American Express, Ford Support Launch of Caribbean Cultural Center

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09/17/2014

... visual art exhibits, workshops in dance and poetry, school programs with artists, workshops on Yoruba ... of East Harlem, and administration of CCCADI's after school programs and its activities in...

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The New York Community Trust

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NoVo Foundation Looks to Girls As Change Agents

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07/10/2015

... the country they are more likely to be suspended from school or become involved with the criminal justice system. Furthermore, even when they perform well in school , education simply does not pay the same...

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Arcus Director Examines the Story Behind LGBT History Month

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09/04/2015

... In January 1994, a suburban St. Louis high school history teacher, Rodney Wilson, suggested that LGBT ... But which month? Pride Month, June, would not work because school was out, and other months were spoken...

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Hartford and Atlantic Funded Study Finds Four in Ten Older Adults Have Trouble Managing Health Needs

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10/14/2015

... care are too much to handle, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests. The findings ... of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School . . . Hartford and Atlantic Funded...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Rockefeller Foundation Funds Tickets for Students to See 'Hamilton'

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10/28/2015

... and philanthropists are hoping it will excite high school students as well. The Rockefeller Foundation and ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Education

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Casey Family Programs Contributes to Initiative in Three Cities to Beat Youth Homelessness This Year

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08/11/2016

... This Year For most kids, the end of summer means back-to- school shopping and hanging up swimsuits in exchange for new ... to find a stable place to live before the start of another school year. According to...

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Housing and Homelessness

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A Golf Center Grows in Harlem

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08/28/2017

... competing against the top player from the Bronx High School of Science, one of the city’s best teams. As his ... Mosholu Golf Course in the Bronx, toward the end of the school year last May. Everyone fell...

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Child-Welfare Agency Gets Props for New Approach to Helping Families Navigate Challenges

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09/20/2017

... past weekend to remove a young boy who reportedly told school officials on Staten Island that his mother beat him ... agency was called into the controversial dispute involving school officials and parents who...

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