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

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12/09/2016

... that we are spending too much money to put too many Americans behind bars. Our prison and jail population has ... to about 2.2 million since 1982. As of 2013, 8 million Americans —one in 40—were behind bars or...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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PhilTV This Week: Feb. 3, 2017

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02/07/2017

Featuring NY Community Trust, UJA-Federation of New York, MAC AIDS Fund, The Search for PNY's Next Public Policy Fellow.

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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

The first national study of language learning in 30 years was requested from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences by a bipartisan group of members of U.S. Senate & House of Representatives.

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The Henry Luce Foundation

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Century Foundation Fellow Comments on the Fate of Student Debt Forgiveness

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04/05/2017

Under a program known as Public Service Loan Forgiveness, some student loan borrowers were supposed to be able to have the balance of their student loans forgiven after ten years of both on-time payments and eligible work in the public sector. Last...

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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

The American Health Care Act (AHCA) could undermine healthcare coverage gains for New Yorkers and result in more than 1 million of them losing that coverage.

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New York Health Foundation

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Editorial: Unemployment in Black and White

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08/30/2017

... a similarly gloomy picture. The jobless rate for black Americans is generally about twice that of white Americans , a ratio that improves only somewhat in “good” ...

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Economic Security

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

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09/11/2017

... This is an obvious place to start. Nearly 22 million Americans are caught up in the volatility of the individual ...

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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

... proposal to vastly expand Medicare to cover all Americans , Republicans are fighting back with familiar ...

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Opinion: Tax Reform Has Potential To Unlock Giving

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10/10/2017

... a simplified tax code would be a welcome change for many Americans , I join many of our nonprofit colleagues in ... why: The proposed reforms would shrink the number of Americans who claim the itemized...

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

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05/14/2018

The honor recognizes Tschinkel’s mathematical contributions, which focus on problems at the interface of algebraic geometry and number theory.

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

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07/13/2018

For more than two decades, experts have warned that Medicare relies far too heavily on recommendations submitted by the American Medical Association’s Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) when setting payment amounts for different physicians...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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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

The land, which runs along the Blue Mountain's Kittatinny Ridge, is being acquired from Pennsylvania American Water and will eventually be turned over to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for public use.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Ford Foundation Appoints Marca Bristo and Gbenga Oyebode to Board of Trustees

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06/20/2019

... of the US Task Force on the Rights and Empowerment of Americans with Disabilities, Bristo worked to draft and win passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. More recently, while ...

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Eugene M. Tobin to Retire from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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07/31/2019

... that provide a liberal arts education to incarcerated Americans and that help the formerly incarcerated reintegrate ...

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The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Releases a Research and Policy In Brief, Mass Shootings: Causes and Prevention

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04/21/2021

In the week this research synthesis was released by HFG, CNN reported that 45 mass shootings had occurred in the U.S. in the previous month.

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