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Ford-supported Research Finds Friends Help Female Vampire Bats Cope with Loss

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05/24/2017

... that unrelated friends are important backup support when family members go missing. When they remove a major food donor, like a mother or daughter, from a bat' s social network, females who previously...

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Russell Sage Research Examines Social Consequences of Recessions

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05/26/2017

The Great Recession, as a new collection of research papers from the Russell Sage Foundation shows, generated a great deal of sadness.

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Five Questions for Laurie Tisch, Founder/President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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07/24/2017

... to support access and opportunity for New Yorkers by year' s end, describes philanthropy as something that' s in her DNA. Foundation Center' s Jen Bokoff, a former ... and how...

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Rockefeller Survey Finds Male Attitudes Are Keeping Women From Getting Ahead In Business

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08/03/2017

... not confident or aggressive enough. They’re held back by family responsibilities. There just aren’t enough qualified ...

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To Shrink Jail Population, a Bail Program Is Expanding

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08/30/2017

... Criminal Court. A phone on her desk lit up with calls from family members, often frantic, asking about relatives who had been arrested. “A lot of people say ‘It’ s my first time calling, I don’t know how this...

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To Change The World, “Eat What You Buy, And Stop Buying More Than You’ll Eat”

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08/31/2017

... with support from The Rockefeller Foundation and The Fink Family Foundation on September 13, 2017. Medeiros leads a ...

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Fatherhood After 40? It's Becoming A Lot More Common

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08/31/2017

Fatherhood After 40? It' s Becoming A Lot More Common If you've put off starting a family , you're not alone. In the U. S ., the average age a woman gives birth to her first child .....

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Children, Youth and Families

One 'Dreamer' Vows to Finish Med School in The Face of DACA Chaos

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09/06/2017

... on Tuesday took the news of the Trump administration' s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ... a mixture of resignation and resolve. "In some ways there' s a lot of...

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Smashing the Stigma: Deputy Mayor Richard Buery On ThriveNYC and Treating Mental Health

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09/08/2017

... One in 5 New Yorkers, and all those New Yorkers have family members and friends and co-workers and parents and ...

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‘I Consider Myself American.’ A New York City Dreamer Reflects on What Losing DACA Would Mean For Him

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09/11/2017

... emigrated to New York when he was a baby, leaving him with family and friends until he was in elementary school and they ...

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Review Board Recommends Departmental Charges Against N.Y. Police Officer in Eric Garner Case

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09/11/2017

... Island three years ago. The CCRB sent letters to Garner’ s family and the NYPD notifying them of the long-awaited ... untaxed cigarettes that led to the 43-year-old man’ s death in July 2014...

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New York Developer Raises Fund for Affordable Housing

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09/12/2017

... fund dedicated to affordable housing, the company’ s largest such fund in a sector drawing more attention from ... including the Ford Foundation, Deutsche Bank AG’ s Community Development Finance Group and an...

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Billionaire Diller’s Plan for Elaborate Pier in the Hudson is Dead

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09/14/2017

Billionaire Diller’ s Plan for Elaborate Pier in the Hudson is Dead Diller Island ... Diller said Wednesday that he was pulling the plug on his family ’ s commitment to build and operate a $250...

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Mayor's Affordable Housing Not Helping People Who Need it Most, Study Says

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09/18/2017

Mayor' s Affordable Housing Not Helping People Who Need it Most, Study Says With the city’ s homelessness crisis unabated, housing advocates are asking ... — targeted households earning about $25,770 for a...

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Some NYC K-12 Schools Cross $50,000-a-Year Mark

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09/19/2017

... private schools increasingly are dominated by the city’ s most affluent families, even when about one-fifth of their ...

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More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog

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09/21/2017

More Than Half of City' s 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog More than half of the city’ s 1.1 million public school students attend overcrowded ... Class Size Matters. Despite the Department...

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Red Tape, Frustration Pushing Out Applicants for Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Program, Report Shows

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09/26/2017

... Sandy victims have dropped out in droves from the city’ s Build It Back recovery program, new data shows. An analysis ...

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How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege?

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09/26/2017

... Marriage, which used to be the default way to form a family in the United States, regardless of income or ...

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More Than 1 Million People Uprooted From Their Homes By Lingering Violence In Kasai, DRC

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09/26/2017

... and villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’ s (DRC’ s ) conflict-hit Kasai region. More than 1 million people have ... schools have worsened adversity in one of the country’ s...

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Rezoning a Block in Harlem, Respecting an African Burial Ground

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09/27/2017

For not quite two centuries starting in the mid-1660s, when a Dutch village was established under the name Nieuw Haarlem, a church in Upper Manhattan had separate cemeteries, one for white parishioners, the other for descendants of Africans.

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