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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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Food Systems

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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Immigration

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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Science

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The Rockefeller Foundation Joins Hotel Industry To Reduce Food Waste

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11/14/2017

... American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, unveil results from a set of projects demonstrating innovative strategies ...

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Food Systems

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OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros

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11/27/2017

... the resettlement of "at least a million immigrants from Africa and the Middle East annually on the territory of ... by EU member states; the redistribution of immigrants from Western Europe to Eastern...

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“Arabella Advisors Partners with Fannie Mae to Announce Sustainable Communities Innovation Challenge”

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12/20/2017

... housing issues. The company expects to receive proposals from across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. ... collaborate with new partners to source innovative ideas from other sectors.” The Challenge...

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Community Development

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Distinguished Writer, Poet, Scholar, and Arts Advocate Elizabeth Alexander as President

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02/07/2018

... building and sustaining highly successful institutions – from the Poetry Center at Smith College, to a major ... African American Studies department at Yale University, from the poetry non-profit Cave Canem,...

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Anisa Kamadoli Costa, Chief Sustainability Officer at Tiffany & Co. Is A Vogue "2018 Game Changer"

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03/15/2018

... support responsible mining and coral conservation. Aside from being a key player in Tiffany’s sustainability, this philanthropist, holds a masters from Columbia University’s School of International and ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Community Art to Keep NYC on the Cultural Edge

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03/27/2018

... the spring of 2019, the Shed received a $75 million gift from Michael Bloomberg's Bloomberg Philanthropies last year. ... word of a new $45 million infusion to the center from a donor who made his fortune...

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Arts

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The United Hospital Fund Releases Report on Positive Impact of Home Health Care

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04/30/2018

... refuse home health care services when they are discharged from inpatient care. Such refusals can lead to higher rates ... refused home health care services. Their reasons ranged from concerns about finances,...

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The Prudential Foundation Honors Teen for Efforts to End Gun Violence

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05/01/2018

... during the program’s national award ceremony. Selected from a field of more than 29,000, he earned the title of ... of $5,000, a trophy for his school and a $5,000 grant from The Prudential Foundation for a...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Civic Engagement

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants Duke University $3M to Grow Liberal Arts Colleges and HBCU Visiting Faculty

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05/07/2018

... Faculty Duke University has landed a $3 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to grow its ... builds on a previous initiative – also funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation – known as...

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Education

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Commonwealth Fund Study Reveals State Rankings on the Nation’s Best Health Care

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05/08/2018

... The study broke down over 40 areas of health care from access, to the value of care Americans were paying for. According to the results, which studied each state from 2013 to 2016, Hawaii ranked as America’s...

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