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Bloomberg Fact Checks NYTimes on Climate Change

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03/20/2017

... to the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign (which I have supported through my foundation), we have already achieved two-thirds of the emissions reductions ...

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With Support from the Arcus Foundation, Study of Transgender Preschoolers Assesses Preferences and Identity

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04/25/2017

... children were just as likely as nontransgender children to have preferences associated with their gender, and to have as strong and clear a sense of their gender identity...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Cities' Ability to Tap Into Big Data

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04/26/2017

... Instagram, inspectors could snap a photo of a property and have it appear on a map, showing officials where dilapidated, ... which property owners might need assistance in rehabbing their properties and which...

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Commentary from Century Foundation: TrumpCare Premium Increases Mapped

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06/01/2017

... scale back Affordable Care Act (ACA) policies which could have a similar double-digit impact as the ACHA next year. ... President Trump and other administration officials have threatened to stop making payment...

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The 2017 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Announced

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06/05/2017

... in the brain. These Scholars are distinguished by their bold approaches to basic scientific questions that ... directions with above-average risk and promise. Scholars have gone on to make fundamental...

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NY State Health Foundation: Kids Could Start a Ceasefire in Health Care Wars

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08/14/2017

... care wars may already be at our doorsteps. But does it have to be another partisan conflict? What if Congress and ... nearly 700,000 kids in New York State— have health insurance through SCHIP. Since the...

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11 Sep 2017

The Pence-Kobach Commission's Potential Impact on Voting Rights - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, September 11, 2017 -

3:00pm to 4:30pm

... Voter Registration Act. While not new, these claims have taken on a new level of urgency under the current ... numbers. To date, 45 states and the District of Columbia have declined or will curtail the data...

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Ford Report Finds that Boards of NYC Museums Lack Diversity

Release Date:

08/24/2017

... many of New York City's arts and cultural organizations have boards that are predominantly white, the New York ... the usual candidate pools. "[T]rustees are limited by their own networks,"...

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Bank of America Announces Hurricane Irma Relief Efforts

Release Date:

09/11/2017

... capabilities will be finalized when areas of extended need have been identified. As it did with its Hurricane Harvey ... to $1 from the standard $25. To date, bank employees have donated $754,000 for both...

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Commonwealth Fund: What Are the Potential Effects of the Graham-Cassidy ACA Repeal-and-Replace Bill? Past Estimates Provide Some Clues

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... insurance coverage for several weeks, but Senate leaders have indicated they will hold a vote without a score. The ... to prior ACA repeal-and-replace bills for which we do have CBO scores. Based on those...

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Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... but the key issues boil down to a familiar few: We have a chemical-intensive system that crowds out ... about the extent to which these things are true (and I have , in eye-glazing, patience-trying detail), it’...

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Why Oklahoma has the Highest Female Incarceration Rate in the Country

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10/06/2017

... than the state average. While other conservative states have reduced sentences for drug crimes, Oklahoma has headed ... haven't reformed the number of sentences for women. Some have increased women's...

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NYSHealth Selects Seven Hospitals to Receive Grant Funds to Implement OpenNotes

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10/12/2017

... OpenNotes is national movement that gives patients and their caregivers access to the clinical notes written by health care providers. When patients have access to their own health...

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Ford Foundation President Darren Walker Highlights The Role Of Innovative Partnerships In New Orleans' Recovery

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10/20/2017

... as smart investments in public infrastructure and housing have strengthened the city, new small businesses and jobs in health care, biosciences and technology have fortified its workforce. Still, it's no...

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New Research Supported By Simons Foundation Points to Cellular Roots of Autism

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12/05/2017

... Cellular Roots of Autism Researchers at UC San Francisco have developed a new genetic model of autism, using neurons ... created in the lab from patients’ own skin cells. Their experiments suggest that...

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David Blumenthal, President of The Commonwealth Fund On How the New U.S. Tax Plan Will Affect Health Care

Release Date:

12/21/2017

... elimination of the penalties paid by people who fail to have health insurance as required by the so-called individual ...

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Report Funded by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation Finds That California Traffic Fines Prey on Poor

Release Date:

01/08/2018

... the least fortunate Californians, from whom traffic courts have difficulty collecting any fees at all. According to the ... it less likely they can pay the fines. Further, studies have unequivocally concluded...

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New Report Funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies Details Macro-Economic Benefits of Reducing Road Traffic Crashes

Release Date:

01/10/2018

... Organization. Rising incomes in many developing countries have led to rapid motorization, but road safety management and regulations have not kept pace. Death rates from traffic injuries in 2015 ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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New Tax Law Might Force Newman's Own to Put Itself up for Sale

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01/10/2018

... a possibility — it's an absolute certainty that we would have to divest," Bob Forrester, chief executive of the ... attempts to exempt Newman's Own from the hefty fines have garnered bipartisan...

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