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Women Lose Ground In The New York City Council, Even If Chin And Ayala Win

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09/14/2017

... In The New York City Council, Even If Chin And Ayala Win A day after the primary election, two women are holding on to ... City Council seats. But even if they both survive, next year ’ s City...

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Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna

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09/14/2017

... McKenna tells the story of her great uncle who died of a basic infection after a minor injury in a firehouse in ... to have created an action plan in 2015...

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Food Systems

Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’s Green City Force

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09/14/2017

Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’ s Green City Force Growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Edna McKay never expected she would one day have a full-time job in the sustainable energy industry. She lived .....

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Workforce Development

Russell Sage Foundation Quoted in Article on Men’s Salaries in Decline

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09/14/2017

Russell Sage Foundation Quoted in Article on Men’ s Salaries in Decline American household income is rising, ... not be time to pop the champagne yet. Especially if you're a male. Men aren't just still...

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Data-Driven Gender Equality

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09/15/2017

... world. Today, for example, women make up nearly half of the agricultural workforce in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, ... data gaps, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has created a three- year...

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International/Foreign Affairs

Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers

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09/18/2017

... Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers At a time when the United States is in the grip of an opioid epidemic, many insurers are limiting access to ... changing, however. The New York State...

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Aging Out of Foster Care Makes Eating Right a Challenge

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09/18/2017

Aging Out of Foster Care Makes Eating Right a Challenge Tony Turner knew he had to improve his eating habits to reverse a recent diagnosis of prediabetes, but, after several...

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How The Rockefeller Foundation Is Bringing Electricity To Hundreds Of Villages Across India

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09/18/2017

... Rockefeller Foundation Is Bringing Electricity To Hundreds Of Villages Across India As of 2017, 1.3 billion people ... homes, livelihoods, and their dreams. Access to energy is a critical...

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Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees

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09/19/2017

... officials, under pressure from the White House to provide a rationale for reducing the number of refugees allowed into the United States next year , rejected a study by the...

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Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books

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09/19/2017

Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books For all of Sunset Park’ s celebrated taquerias, dim sum parlors and picturesque ... its squat concrete frame and fluorescent lights — a far cry from...

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Housing and Homelessness

The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime

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09/19/2017

... 1.1 million public school students would be provided with a free daily lunch. The move came a few months after state ... their parents have not paid. (In one notable example last year , an...

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These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It?

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09/19/2017

... accord would be bad for business, top executives from Bank of America and Coca-Cola argued. When President Donald Trump committed to yanking the U. S . out anyway, PayPal and Western Union countered “We are...

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Into Battle: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way

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09/19/2017

... Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way A few years ago, when Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan ... structure. The LLC is a much better vehicle for the kind...

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Health-Care Titan Centene Will Try to Duck Contraceptive Coverage With Pickup Of Church-Linked Provider, Manhattan Pol Warns

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09/21/2017

... Pol Warns Manhattan state Sen. Brad Hoylman has written a letter to state regulators expressing concern that the ... said it will try to continue a policy for at least a year...

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If Congress Doesn’t Act Fast on Children’s Health Insurance, Millions Could Be at Risk

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09/21/2017

If Congress Doesn’t Act Fast on Children’ s Health Insurance, Millions Could Be at Risk Last Tuesday, ... the Senate Finance Committee announced it had reached a bipartisan agreement to extend funding for the...

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Citi Foundation and Citi Canada Announce a $700,000 Commitment to Youth

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09/22/2017

Citi Foundation and Citi Canada Announce a $700,000 Commitment to Youth In an effort to reduce youth ... and leadership development, Citi announced an expansion of the Pathways to Progress initiative in Canada,...

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LDN Fund Officially Launched

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09/22/2017

... was launched on 12 September 2017 at the 13th Conference of the Parties (COP13) to the United Nations Convention to ... an initial target size of US$300 million, the LDN Fund is a first-...

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Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?

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09/22/2017

Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate? A framework for understanding the roles you can play in a ... on research on social change,1 including our own research, 2 for which we studied...

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Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness

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09/25/2017

Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness A few years ago, the Hudson River Park Trust floated an idea ... reached by two narrow bridges, replacing the remains of Pier 54 near West 14th Street, where the Lusitania...

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