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Darren Walker Writes on Lessons Learned from Rikers Island

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05/15/2017

... on the scale and scope of the challenges America’ s incarceration crisis presents. While it seems that federal momentum for reform has slowed—if not reversed, as of late—it’ s still possible...

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Cuomo Administration Bullish On State Climate Action After RGGI Agreement

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08/28/2017

... state Department of Environmental Conservation said there' s a good chance the Northeast agreement between states to ... Seggos said the agreement demonstrates that even with the federal inaction on...

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Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program

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08/28/2017

... Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program One of the country’ s largest servicers of federal student loans has badly mismanaged debt forgiveness ... the Massachusetts attorney general. “This company’ s...

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Winning the Lottery: Enrolling in Success Academy Produces Math Gains for Students, New Study Shows

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08/30/2017

... firm MDRC. The analysis, funded by Success as part of a federal grant, found that the network’ s third- and fourth-graders showed about a year to a year and ... in math put Success Academy towards the top of...

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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 has been the...

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Edith Windsor, LGBTQ Advocate Who Fought The Defense Of Marriage Act, Dies At 88

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09/14/2017

... married as well. When Spyer died in 2009, though, the federal government didn't recognize that love on Windsor' s tax forms, expecting her to pay more than $350,000 in .....

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Northeast Needs Trump Commitment to Gateway Project

Release Date:

09/15/2017

... nation. The Hudson River tunnels carry trains for Amtrak’ s Northeast Corridor, the nation’ s busiest railroad, and for NJ Transit, which averages 90,000 ... and job growth, the president has yet to commit to...

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States Team Up To Fight Climate Change

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09/21/2017

... Climate Change A group of states adhering to the initial U. S . commitment to the Paris climate accord are on track to meet their environmental targets, despite the federal government planning to pull out the...

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Commonwealth Fund: Why the Graham-Cassidy Repeal Bill Is Unworkable

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09/25/2017

... one issue needs a lot more attention: even last night’ s version of the bill won’t work. Graham-Cassidy would, as of 2020, take the funds currently being spent by the federal government on the Affordable Care...

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Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success

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09/27/2017

... a school is? Test scores? Culture? Attendance? In the new federal education law (the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ... form of chronic student absenteeism. Many of the state' s plans still need to be...

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Judge Lays into Justice Department Lawyer over ‘Heartless’ DACA Decision

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09/27/2017

... Lawyer over ‘Heartless’ DACA Decision A Brooklyn federal judge dressed down a Justice Department lawyer ... Tuesday for refusing to explain the Trump administration’ s decision to keep the impending Oct. 5...

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Minorities and Americans Without College Degrees Showed Greatest Gains In Wealth Since 2013, New Data Shows

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09/28/2017

... large gains in net worth over the past three years, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday. But the improvements ... didn't narrow the inequality gap: The share of U. S . income held by the top 1 percent...

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Jewish Group Slams Mayor De Blasio’s Free School Lunch Plan for Not Offering Kosher Foods

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10/02/2017

Jewish Group Slams Mayor De Blasio’ s Free School Lunch Plan for Not Offering Kosher Foods Mayor de Blasio' s free school lunch plan isn’t kosher — and that’ s left many in the city’...

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20 Percent of Serious Food Safety Violations Go Ignored, New Report Finds

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10/03/2017

... facilities, according to a report released by federal auditors Wednesday. In the remaining cases, the Food ...

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Trump Administration Rolls Back Birth Control Mandate

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10/10/2017

... Jeff Sessions quoted those words in issuing guidance to federal agencies and prosecutors, instructing them to take ...

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House Gives Approval to $36.5 Billion Disaster Aid Package

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10/13/2017

... billion disaster aid package Thursday to help states and U. S . territories rebuild in the wake of devastating hurricanes ... praised the move, saying the bill will help replenish federal disaster funds and...

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Ford Foundation and Citi Fund Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture $22.3 Million Renovation

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10/17/2017

... $22.3 Million Renovation The New York Public Library’ s renowned Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in ... the City of New York, the State of New York, and Carver Federal Savings Bank. The...

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New York Women's Foundation Awards $1 Million for Resilience

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11/28/2017

New York Women' s Foundation Awards $1 Million for Resilience The New York Women' s Foundation has announced grants totaling $1 million to ... with women and families directly affected by changes in...

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In Response to TCF Lawsuit, DeVos Begins to Release ACICS and ABA Documents

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02/22/2018

... to a lawsuit filed by The Century Foundation, the U. S . Department of Education has started to release documents ...

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