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Sessions As Attorney General Means Criminal-Justice Reform Is Dead

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12/15/2016

... for the scuttling of his nomination 30 years ago as a federal judge), Jeff Sessions as attorney general is a ... rights. As my colleague Eric Levitz explains, Sessions’ s entrenched position in the very last...

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Andrea Ritchie, Soros Justice Fellow and Co-author Talks About “Say Her Name”

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05/10/2016

... Ritchie coordinates the policing subgroup of the LGBT federal criminal justice working group. She gave a PHIL Talk ... “If her story had become iconic in the same way King’ s did, maybe in addition to talking...

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Commonwealth Fund Says N.J. Tops Many States On Healthcare Scorecard

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03/16/2017

... and states like New Jersey that chose to embrace the federal law have seen greater improvements than those that ... to rank 22nd this year overall in the organization' s 2017 Scorecard on State Health...

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments on the Fate of Student Debt Forgiveness

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04/05/2017

... in the public sector. Meaning, a qualifying nonprofit, federal , local, state, or tribal government. The program ...

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JPB Foundation Supports Study of New Approach That Makes Cells Resistant to HIV

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04/19/2017

... plan to collaborate with investigators at City of Hope’ s Center for Gene Therapy to evaluate this new therapy in efficacy and safety tests, as required by federal regulations, prior to testing in patients.....

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NY State Health Releases Policy Recommendations to Address Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems in NY State

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06/12/2017

... need to be addressed. Presently, few New York State or federal regulations are applied to ENDS products to protect ...

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The Commonwealth Fund Reports on Medicaid Expansion's Effect on Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending for Low-Income Families

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08/25/2017

The Commonwealth Fund Reports on Medicaid Expansion' s Effect on Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending for ... Fund recently released a study using data from the federal Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine...

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Unemployment’s Steady Fall Could Signal Trouble—or a Broader Structural Shift

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08/28/2017

Unemployment’ s Steady Fall Could Signal Trouble—or a Broader Structural ... to overheating and heading for trouble. A study by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco finds that over the past century, the...

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How to Succeed on a Nonprofit Board

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08/28/2017

... had done so innumerable times in the past. But as a new federal administration took over, it became clear the ... more on top of things. In particular, he felt the board’ s treasurer, a well-known CFO of a big...

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A Former Felon Leads The Way In Criminal Justice Reform

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08/31/2017

... senior policy advisor for corrections and reentry at the U. S . Department of Justice. Hoskins’ transition from being ... herself to advocating for criminal justice reform in the federal government is the sort...

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Opinion: Small Charities Should Lead by Example in Paid Parental Leave

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08/29/2017

... maternity- or parental-leave policies, and it’ s time the federal government made this a priority. Yet a ...

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What Major Universities Had to Say About Trump’s Move to Roll Back DACA

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09/07/2017

What Major Universities Had to Say About Trump’ s Move to Roll Back DACA Shortly after the Trump ... announced on Tuesday that it would rescind a federal program that offered legal protections to ... — a wave of...

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Declaration Of Principles Across Hockey Takes NHL Where Other Pro Leagues Ought To Go

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09/08/2017

... commissioner Bill Daly tasked Pat LaFontaine, the league’ s vice-president of hockey development and a member of Hockey ...

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Witness Warrants Were Misused in Queens and Elsewhere, Court Papers Say

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09/11/2017

... Elsewhere, Court Papers Say It is one of law enforcement’ s most expansive powers: If the authorities believe that ... the search for justice, court papers recently filed in a federal lawsuit claim that the...

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De Blasio Fails To Give Public School Teachers Maternity Leave

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09/13/2017

The New York City Department of Education (DOE) does not offer paid parental leave for union workers, nor does the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) union provide their members with any parental leave benefits, Kings County Politics has learned.

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Insurers Come Out Swinging Against New Republican Health Care Bill

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09/21/2017

... came out forcefully on Wednesday against the Senate’ s latest bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, suggesting ... complicated formula in the bill. Generally, it would shift federal funds away from states...

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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

Commentary from The Century Foundation: Women’ s Underrepresentation in Politics: No, It’ s Not Just an Ambition Gap Last week, the New York Times ... on average. And the statistics shrink even more at the...

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U.S. Quietly Announces Plan To Monitor Immigrants’ Social Media Accounts, Search Histories

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09/28/2017

U. S . Quietly Announces Plan To Monitor Immigrants’ Social ... not just immigration applicants, but also to naturalized U. S . citizens and lawful permanent residents. It goes into ... by BuzzFeed, the new rule was...

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State Officials: N.Y. Will Help Enroll People in Insurance through Obamacare

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09/29/2017

... Care Act will not affect New York, the head of the state’ s online exchange said Thursday. “Letting people know about ... enroll in coverage is not only the right thing to do, it’ s the smart thing to do...

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