Yahoo Co-Founder Gives $25 Million to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... Yang, a Yahoo co-founder, and his wife, Akiko Yamazaki, have pledged $25 million toward a $90-million transformation ...
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De Blasio’s ‘Homeless Hotels’ Plan Is Way Behind Schedule
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... only 48 of the 550 units promised under those contracts have come to fruition, a delay that advocates say stems ...
Minorities and Americans Without College Degrees Showed Greatest Gains In Wealth Since 2013, New Data Shows
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... all economic groups, the wealthiest and most educated have been in a position to benefit even more because they ...
Atlantic Theater Company Names Amy Staats Tow Playwright-in-Residence
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... is awarded annually to early-career playwrights who have not yet received an Off-Broadway production. . . ...
Mellon Foundation Makes the Business Case for Humanities Education
Release Date:
09/29/2017
... Labor shortages and skill gaps in New Hampshire have limited overall growth and the state’s ability to ...
‘Interrupters’ Help Reduce Violence in New York City
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... Help Reduce Violence in New York City They have prior criminal records but now aim to resolve ...
'Massive Anxiety' As Turkey Cracks Down On International NGOs
Release Date:
10/02/2017
Just before Ramadan in late spring 2017, the full might of the Turkish state descended on a foreign aid agency in the border town of Gaziantep. Six different government agencies, among them the migration directorate and the gendarmerie, had come to...
De Blasio Taps Acting Commissioner Vincent Sapienza To Head Department of Environmental Protection
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... “When I sign things, I guess it’s one less word I have to write,” Sapienza, who started as an engineer 34 ...
Mayor De Blasio Eyes 'Ideal' Queens Site For New Jail As Rikers Shuts Down
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... Detention Center would be an ideal first step and we have already started to take a hard look at this site to ...
General Motors Is Going All Electric
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... recent months, Volvo, Aston Martin, and Jaguar Land Rover have announced similar moves. GM’s declaration, though, is ...
NYers Face Harsher ATM Fees Than Nearly Anyone in Nation, Study Finds
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... staggering 55 percent, Bankrate.com says. And New Yorkers have it worse than almost anyone in the nation. . . NYers ...
Inspired or Frustrated, Women Go to Work for Themselves
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... in Dublin, and Lea Giovanniello of Vienna, Va., and they have never met. Yet their workplace experiences and career ...
Buffett Says Government Should Do More to Combat Poverty
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... "The American dream has succeeded in aggregate. We have failed, in my view, to create the equality of .....
Myanmar Rohingya Abuses May Be Crimes Against Humanity, UN Rights Experts Warn
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... (CEDAW) and the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) have called on the Myanmar authorities to immediately stop ...
Researchers: Supporting Teenage Girls Requires More Than Pads
Release Date:
10/06/2017
Everyone knows the old adage, “If you give a man a fish…” NHPR has a story with a new twist: “If you give a woman a menstrual pad…”
Long-Held Political, Ethnic Rivalries Heating Up Fight Over Brooklyn Pfizer Site
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... years, political rivalries, ethnic disputes and litigation have defined the trajectory of development in a section of ...
Delaware Juvenile Justice Reforms Signed into Law
Release Date:
10/13/2017
... year. The pieces of legislation aim to ensure juveniles have access counsel, to increase social services for youth ...
The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Recognizes Young Volunteers from Every State
Release Date:
10/17/2017
... the past 22 years, Prudential Spirit of Community Awards have been given to more than 120,000 middle and high school ...
Century Foundation Study Reveals that Most Student Loan Fraud Claims Involve For-Profits
Release Date:
11/09/2017
... criticism for erasing two Obama-era regulations that would have added protections for students. Review of tens of ...
Ford Foundation's Darren Walker, One of Rolling Stones 25 People Shaping the Future
Release Date:
11/22/2017
... Shaping the Future The nation's major philanthropies have long operated by noblesse oblige, seeking to blunt the .....