With DSH Cuts Looming, Cuomo Must Decide How to Allot Fewer Dollars
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... and the largest cut, in terms of dollars, for any state . The Medicaid DSH program is meant to help hospitals ...
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Federal Judge Urges Trump Administration to Push Back DACA Deadline
Release Date:
09/15/2017
A federal judge in Brooklyn on Thursday urged the Trump administration to extend its deadline for young undocumented immigrants to apply to stay in the United States under an Obama-era program that the White House recently promised to end.
NYC Schools Are Inadequate on Sex Education, Stringer Says
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... Teen pregnancy rates in the Bronx are the highest in the state , the audit said... NYC Schools Are Inadequate on Sex ...
43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says
Release Date:
09/18/2017
... students are not getting the sex education required by the state , according to a report released on Thursday by New York ...
These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It?
Release Date:
09/19/2017
A tale of Paris climate agreement supporters, political spending and unintended consequences.
If Congress Doesn’t Act Fast on Children’s Health Insurance, Millions Could Be at Risk
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... be an awful lot of work that would need to happen at the state level” should the funding not be renewed, says Ben ...
With Its 'No Dancing' Law Verging On Repeal, New York Legitimizes Its Nightlife
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... (D-37), a Bed-Stuy native first elected to the New York State Assembly at the age of 26 and currently in his first ...
Pound Foolish
Release Date:
09/22/2017
Food banks must reject measuring their impact by pounds of food distributed and instead promote access to nutritious food.
Open Society Research Looks at New Technology Predicting Recidivism Without Being Racist
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... post cash bail, you’ll await trial in a jail cell on State Road. Good luck. The current process of assigning bail ...
The Return Of Hookworm And The Limits Of Public Health Philanthropy
Release Date:
09/27/2017
The rates hookworm infection found in Lowndes County, AL—one of the poorest counties in the state, three-quarters of whose residents are African-American (as were all of those tested in the study)—have not improved much from levels a century ago.
A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... They take advantage of taxpayer-funded research at state universities. Prison inmates raise cattle in Kentucky, ...
How Failure of the Obamacare Repeal Affects Consumers
Release Date:
09/27/2017
Obamacare repeal is dead, again. But the months of Republican attacks on the health law will still have consequences for some consumers.
Opinion: A Cash Guarantee for All Has Philanthropy Buzzing
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... while in June, Hawaii became the first American state to commit to evaluating the idea. Scotland and India ...
Home Health Workers: All the Work, Half the Pay
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... an industrywide practice known as the 13-hour rule, a state -sanctioned policy in which home care workers are paid ...
Immigration Agents Arrest Hundreds in Sweep of Sanctuary Cities
Release Date:
10/03/2017
Federal agents arrested 498 people from 42 countries in a four-day nationwide operation targeting cities that United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement said give sanctuary to undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes.
Building Bridges between Scared Immigrant Communities and Police
Release Date:
10/06/2017
Immigrant communities in general have a fear of police interactions, but this fear has been heightened in the current climate of crackdowns on immigration and increased raids from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Opinion: No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job
Release Date:
10/10/2017
The recovery from the crisis of 2008 has been one of the weakest on record, but never in postwar history has so little growth created so many jobs.
Opinion: The Community Health Center Fund: What’s At Risk?
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... those who have worked for a very long time at the local, state , or national level to build the community health ...
As Bloomberg Hammers Away at Coal, What Might Be Next for His Climate Giving?
Release Date:
10/18/2017
After Bloomberg Philanthropies recently gave another $64 million to a campaign that’s closing down coal plants in the United States, one telling headline came from the Courier-Journal in Louisville: “New York City billionaires are battling over coal...
How Propel Capital is Charting New Paths For Venture Philanthropy in Progressive Organizing
Release Date:
12/12/2017
Last week, the fund launched Propel Democracy, a new $5 million effort that seeks 'to catalyze investment in local organizing strategies that build progressive political power in states of critical electoral importance.'