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Federal Judge Urges Trump Administration to Push Back DACA Deadline

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09/15/2017

... General Jeff Sessions announced that immigrants shielded from deportation by the program, which is known as the ... Court in Brooklyn. “It would make a lot of sense from various vantage points to extend this...

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43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says

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09/18/2017

... infection in 2015 rose to 350 cases per 100,000, up from 315 cases per 100,000 in 2014. The infection rate of ... per 100,000 in 2015, which was also a slight increase from the year before. . . 43% of City...

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Education

Back-and-Forth on DACA Leaves Young Immigrants ‘Just Dangling’

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09/25/2017

... and two jobs. Apolinar Islas, 34, who came to New York from Mexico when he was 15, said he walks around in “zombie ... immigrants brought to the United States as children from deportation and lets them work...

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Open Society Research Looks at New Technology Predicting Recidivism Without Being Racist

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09/25/2017

... Good luck. The current process of assigning bail is far from scientific. As part of sweeping changes to ... a label: Low-, medium- or high-risk. Bail will be assigned from there, and the ultimate goal is to...

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Justice Reform

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Rockefeller Supported Program Signs Up More Than 100 Schools To Teach Health Risks Of Climate Change

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09/26/2017

... and programs representing an estimated 90,000 students from 15 countries on 6 continents (all health professions ... and health in the U.S., lead the Consortium, with input from an international, multi-...

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Environment and Climate Change

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A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals

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09/27/2017

... Animal Feeding Operations). Animal agriculture benefits from federal commodity checkoff programs that fund marketing ... Liz Hallinan and Ashley Allen Carr, with a $500,000 grant from the Open Philanthropy...

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Food Systems

Guggenheim Museum Is Criticized for Pulling Animal Artworks

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09/27/2017

... Monday, the Guggenheim decided to pull three major works from a highly anticipated exhibition after pressure from animal-rights supporters and others over the show “Art ...

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Open Society, Ford Foundation, Unbound Philanthropy Support Delivering on the Dream Initiative

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09/27/2017

... DACA has created a lot of anger and pushback, including from some prominent corporate leaders. But what are foundations doing to protect undocumented young people from deportation and save DACA, the fate of...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Tax Plan Doubles Standard Deduction, Leaves Charitable Deduction In Place

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09/28/2017

... personal exemptions; Reduce seven tax brackets ranging from 10 to 39.6 percent into three tax brackets of 12, 25 and ... taxpayers; and, Reduce the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent. . . Tax...

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In The Battle For Trans Equality In North Carolina, This Teen Is On The Front Lines

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09/28/2017

... state law enacted in 2016 that prevented local governments from passing LGBTQ anti-discrimination policies and banned trans people from using the public bathroom that corresponds to their ...

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Home Health Workers: All the Work, Half the Pay

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10/02/2017

... a decade to support her three children after she emigrated from China in the late 1980s. She sometimes labored until 2 a.m. for such brands as DKNY and saw co-workers faint from the stifling summer heat in a...

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Nations Urged to Reject Phillip Morris Funds for Antismoking Efforts

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10/03/2017

... this new organization with a mission of reducing the harm from smoking. Angry responses to this announcement came from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food Safety

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10/04/2017

... of controlling policy, he’s already gotten angry letters from almost every influential watchdog group — the Center ... plan by Trump’s USDA to shift international food safety from an office where oversight...

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Nonprofits Initiate Recall as Mayor Cuts Their Funding

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10/05/2017

... Gonzalez’s decision to eliminate funding for nonprofits from his proposed 2018 city budget said that “recall efforts to have him removed from office have begun and will continue unless the funding ...

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Building Bridges between Scared Immigrant Communities and Police

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10/06/2017

... climate of crackdowns on immigration and increased raids from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Many ... to Houston Police Department data, sexual assault reports from the Latinx community dropped...

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Schumer Calls On EPA To Resume 'Abandoned' Cleanups Of Radioactive Hot Spots

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10/10/2017

... cleanup activities to clean up hot spots that resulted from radioactive waste byproducts from prior industrial uses. The three sites are a parking lot ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Forest, Forest Everywhere. But Not an Acre to Touch.

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10/10/2017

... is so narrow that you could easily hurl a polished rock from one bank to the other. But ever since a century-old ... have required amending the State Constitution, with voters from Rochester to Ronkonkoma...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Commits $5 Million to JDRF T1D Fund

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10/27/2017

... 1 diabetes (T1D), has announced a $5 million commitment from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. ... January with $32 million in seed funding from JDRF, the fund manages more than $60 million...

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Research Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads To Passwords In Clothing

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11/02/2017

... to wear your password on your sleeve? Computer scientists from the University of Washington can make it so. A research ... tricks that have been developed for applications ranging from glow-in-the-dark...

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