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A Well-Intentioned City Redevelopment Plan Hits the Skids

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09/26/2017

... business owners appears to have been for naught. “It’ s a waste of the city’ s money,” said Tom Angotti, an emeritus professor at the Urban Policy and Planning department of Hunter College. “...

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Community Development

How Failure of the Obamacare Repeal Affects Consumers

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09/27/2017

... also coast along with the status quo; there have been no policy changes affecting the price or comprehensiveness of ...

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Health

Home Health Workers: All the Work, Half the Pay

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10/02/2017

... Half the Pay Lai Yee Chan worked piece-rate in the city' s textile factories for more than a decade to support her ... from the stifling summer heat in a Midtown warehouse. Chan' s current workplace...

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Documents Show NYC’s Education Department Failed to Answer 526 Public Records Requests Over Past 3 Years

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10/05/2017

Documents Show NYC’ s Education Department Failed to Answer 526 Public Records ... sent an intriguing public records request to the city’ s Department of Education. “Under the Freedom of ... the teachers union...

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NYC Will Miss a Deadline to Accommodate 5 New Charter Schools

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10/13/2017

... to Accommodate 5 New Charter Schools New York City’ s Department of Education said on Thursday that it would not ... between the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio and Eva S . Moskowitz, the founder of...

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William T. Grant Foundation President Discusses Inequality In English Language Education

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10/26/2017

... on Oct. 25 as part of the Department of Education’ s Speaker Series. English language instructors vary widely in ... outcomes and how to better use research to influence policy , Gamoran said. His lecture...

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‘White Rage’ Author Kicks Off Mellon Lecture Series Aimed At Better Understanding Racism

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12/08/2017

... said as she kicked off the first talk in Georgetown' s Mellon Lecture Series last week. The Mellon Lecture Series, ... scholarship to better understand and address the nation' s legacies of slavery,...

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Wallace Foundation President Explains Foundation’s “Unified Approach”

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12/20/2017

Wallace Foundation President Explains Foundation’ s “Unified Approach” In an interview with the Funder’ s Forum, Wallace Foundation President Will Miller explains ... answer them, and then shares what it learns to...

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18 Apr 2018

Immigrant Kids in School: Challenges, Progress and Potential

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... on being a city of immigrants. As federal immigration policy and practice undergo dramatic shifts, the City has ... in and around our public schools. Philanthropy New York’ s Education Working Group- in...

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Citigroup Sets Restrictions on Gun Sales by Business Partners

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03/23/2018

... in the divisive nationwide gun control debate. The new policy , announced Thursday, prohibits the sale of firearms to ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds 20 Years of Sky Observations

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05/11/2018

... the celestial equator and light went through to the survey' s exquisitely sensitive camera. The telescope' s mirror, 2.5 meters (8 feet) in diameter, is small by ... and all images are open access...

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Science

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Alisha Williams to Join Arcus as Program Officer of Social Justice Program

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06/19/2018

... LGBTQ Poverty Initiative at the Vaid Group where they led policy advocacy and public education efforts among a ...

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Rockefeller Foundation, FAO Supporting Africa to Halve Food Loss

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06/21/2018

Food that ‘disappears' from the food chain after harvest owing to spoilage could feed an estimated 48 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa. A project by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the African Union and The Rockefeller Foundation...

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19 Feb 2019

True or False Solutions to Climate Change

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... potential to impact the national conversation and national policy What climate policies are under consideration by New York State’ s new Senate, what their prospects are, and how they compare to other state’...

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NYSHealth's Patients as Partners Provides $230,708 Patient Empowerment Grant

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12/14/2018

NYSHealth' s Patients as Partners Provides $230,708 Patient Empowerment ... role in how health care is delivered and how health policy is made, NYSHealth issued a request for proposals, ... of project...

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