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Largest-Ever Study of Cornea Condition Reveals Hidden Risk Factors, U-M Team Reports (Research To Prevent Blindness)

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01/13/2016

A large new study reveals previously unknown risk factors associated with an eye condition that causes serious progressive nearsightedness at a relatively young age. The findings, made through the largest-ever clinical study of the condition called...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Funded by Research to Prevent Blindness, USC Study Predicts Visual Impairment Will Double by 2050

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05/19/2016

Older women, minorities, especially Latinos, most at risk; aging baby boomers contribute to increase.

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Hazen Foundation's Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students?

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12/09/2016

An overemphasis on criminal justice undermines K-12 education, writes Edward W. Hazen Foundation president Lori Bezahler for Ed Week.

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PhilTV This Week: Feb. 3, 2017

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02/07/2017

... to Spread the Word About HIV Prevention For African- American Women Nonprofit Shouldn't Mean Nonviable in New York .....

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Backed by Henry Luce and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, Report Shows Need for U.S. to Invest in Language Learning to Remain Competitive

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02/28/2017

... to Invest in Language Learning to Remain Competitive The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today released the ... report arrives at an important moment in our history," American Academy President...

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The Henry Luce Foundation

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Arts

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Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health

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03/17/2017

As the philanthropic arm of an insurance company, the Aetna Foundation has a special appreciation of what happens when the underlying causes of poor health go unaddressed—namely, all of society gets hit with higher healthcare costs.

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments on the Fate of Student Debt Forgiveness

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04/05/2017

... These include four people, all attorneys, working for the American Bar Association, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and Vietnam ...

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Education

'Inside Philanthropy' Analyzes Doris Duke's Bet on the Arts to Counter Islamophobia

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04/12/2017

... (DDCF) is committed to finding common ground between American Muslims and non-Muslims through the arts. More ...

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Arts

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NY State Health Foundation CEO: 1M New Yorkers Could Lose Health Coverage Under AHCA

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05/08/2017

... in the country. . . “Today’s vote to approve the American Health Care Act (AHCA) could undermine those ...

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New York Health Foundation

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Commonwealth Fund and GWU Release New Findings on House GOP Healthcare Bill Resulting in Loss of 1M Jobs in 10 Years

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06/19/2017

... unflattering potential effects from the enacting of the American Health Care Act. According to the study from ... decrease of federal spending on healthcare under the GOP's American Health Care Act would...

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Markle Foundation and Microsoft Partner to Accelerate a Skills-Based Labor Market for the Digital Economy

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06/29/2017

... Skillful initiative , a data-driven approach to connecting American workers and businesses in a rapidly evolving labor ... in technology have helped the economy overall, some American workers are being...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Workforce Development

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Editorial: Unemployment in Black and White

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08/30/2017

The recent finding by The New York Times that black students are still vastly underrepresented at the nation’s top colleges and universities is one sign of how little the country has managed to do to close racial gaps.

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Opinion: A Bipartisan Approach to Stabilizing Our Nation’s Health Insurance System

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09/11/2017

... insurance system that is available and affordable to every American . . . Opinion: A Bipartisan Approach to Stabilizing ...

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‘Medicare for All’: Is It Popular? And Is It the Same as Britain’s System?

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09/15/2017

... contracts with doctors. Under Mr. Sanders’s plan, every American would receive insurance through Medicare, but the ...

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Opinion: Tax Reform Has Potential To Unlock Giving

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10/10/2017

While a simplified tax code would be a welcome change for many Americans, I join many of our nonprofit colleagues in believing that the proposed reforms would have unintended consequences for giving.

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation's Ninth Annual Fiscal Summit Will Outline Urgent Need for Fiscal Reset following Recent Tax and Spending Legislation

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05/01/2018

The Peter G. Peterson Foundation will convene the 2018 Fiscal Summit: Debt Matters on Thursday, May 10, at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. As campaigns for the 2018 midterm elections get underway within a rapidly changing policy...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Civic Engagement

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Yuri Tschinkel of The Simons Foundation, Elected to German National Academy of Sciences

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05/14/2018

... University’s Courant Institute. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Yuri ...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation Funds Report Rethinking How Medicare Pays for Services

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07/13/2018

... relies far too heavily on recommendations submitted by the American Medical Association’s Relative Value Scale Update ... Medicare’s current system. In a new report, Center for American Progress outlines a new...

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With Support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Plans Underway to Preserve Blue Mountain Wildlife Refuge

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11/26/2018

... Kittatinny Ridge, is being acquired from Pennsylvania American Water and will eventually be turned over to the U.S. ... a portion of its land in the area, according to Shenk. " American Water will retain...

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