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Climate-Smart Agriculture Urgently Needed in Africa

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09/05/2017

... affected countries by climate change are in Africa, warns a major agricultural research for development partnership, ... the Adaptation of Africa Agriculture to Climate Change), as well as...

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International/Foreign Affairs

Bloomberg, Gateses, and Other Big Donors Race to Fill Void of Clinton Global Meeting

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09/05/2017

... coincide with the United Nations General Assembly kickoff, as influential donors like Michael Bloomberg, Jeff Skoll, and ... Gates hold new gatherings that promise to update what used to be the philanthropic...

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Manhattan DA Lightens Marijuana Penalties in New Policy

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09/06/2017

... Vance announced that his office is also working on a policy, to be implemented in the spring, to end ...

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Review Board Recommends Departmental Charges Against N.Y. Police Officer in Eric Garner Case

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09/11/2017

... Review Board recommended the NYPD discipline the cop who used a banned chokehold in the death of Eric Garner in Staten ... man’s death in July 2014 has been the subject of a long-running...

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Diverse Charter Schools In New York City to Get Boost from Walton Money

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09/14/2017

... space to teachers to technology. The effort reflects a growing interest in New York and beyond in establishing charter schools that enroll students from a mix of backgrounds, which research suggests can...

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Education

Gates Commits $20 Million to Women's Groups

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09/21/2017

... other donors already active in the field. It will also be used to bolster grass-roots women’s campaigns in the developing world. While the money is a tiny slice of the foundation’s more than $40 billion in...

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The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern

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09/26/2017

... leads and given prosecutors ammunition in court. But as the police have gotten more aggressive about collecting genetic material, they've quietly amassed a giant database of DNA profiles without any laws...

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How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege?

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09/26/2017

How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege? Marriage, which used to be the default way to form a family in the United States, regardless of income or ...

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Gender Justice

New Index to Help Investors Gauge Food Diversity

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09/26/2017

... is expected to be launched next year, giving investors a benchmark for assessing how companies and governments are ... to climate change. Investing in food species such as drought-tolerant Ethiopian durum...

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Food Systems

How a Quirky Art Prize Tied to the DeVos Family Went Political

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09/28/2017

How a Quirky Art Prize Tied to the DeVos Family Went Political ... contest. The mixed-media painting depicts Ms. Constantine as a carnival freak suffering for the perceived misdeeds of Ms. ...

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‘Interrupters’ Help Reduce Violence in New York City

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10/02/2017

... they turn violent. They walk neighborhood streets on a daily basis and use their connections to resolve disputes ... York and the South Bronx, two neighborhoods analyzed in a John Jay College of Criminal...

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Republicans Are Reconsidering Full Repeal of State and Local Tax Deduction

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10/04/2017

... Tax Deduction Republican leaders are backing away from a proposal to fully repeal an expensive tax break used by more than 40 million tax filers to deduct state and ... officials. But elimination of the...

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Economic Security

Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?

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10/04/2017

... accountable for student attendance — attaching stakes to a measure that previously had much less significance and ...

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Education

Can Redevelopment of the Bedford Union Armory Be Saved?

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10/04/2017

Can Redevelopment of the Bedford Union Armory Be Saved? A land use proposal to redevelop the 138,000-square-foot, ... Bedford Union Armory in Crown Heights to create a mix of different types of housing and...

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Community Development

New York State Health Foundation releases new data snapshot "Health Care Spending Trends in New York State"

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10/04/2017

... $193 billion in 2014, up from $165 billion in 2009. As policy conversations at the state and national level ... focus on health care costs, this snapshot—the first in a series on health care costs in New York—...

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Four Communities Are to Receive Smart Growth Funds, Cuomo Announces

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10/05/2017

... Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced the funding during a news conference Wednesday in North Tonawanda. North ...

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Community Development

SUNY Revises Controversial Proposal to Let Some New York Charter Schools Certify Their Own Teachers

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10/10/2017

... Some New York Charter Schools Certify Their Own Teachers A state group that oversees some New York charter schools has revised a hotly contested proposal to let its schools certify their ... has been reduced...

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Rockefeller Focuses on Skills Gap in India

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12/08/2017

... Tata Trusts and other industry heavyweights, has received a grant worth $250,000 (Rs 1.6 crore) from The Rockefeller ... equipping and supporting the underprivileged youth in hard as well as...

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Workforce Development

Commonwealth Fund Analysis Shows how Disastrous the Medicaid Work Requirement Would be, Given the Opioid Crisis

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01/12/2018

... The first state waiver is likely to be from Kentucky — a state that has benefited enormously from Medicaid coverage ... analysis by the Commonwealth Fund. The state predicts that a full 15 percent of its...

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