A bid to get more money to defend low-income clients has led to an odd fight about just how much should be spent in trying to defend itinerant clients facing the ultimate punishment.
Many are quick to pit the MoMA’s financial good fortune against the Met’s struggle to meet its bottom line. But can the two institutions really be compared?
Studies show that the quality of housing and academic performance among children are linked, so why are the education reformers so deeply uninterested?
A successful program partnership for low-income and minority academic success is ended by Grinnell College. College officials indicate program cost concerns, but a redefinition of diversity may also be at play.
In any society, people should never be called upon to pay for their convictions with the price of their lives. But tyranny is jealous of its power and prestige and fearful of dissent.
The latest fight to make New Orleans a more accessible city focuses on the St. Charles Streetcar.
Three years ago, the state of New Mexico defunded and drove out of business nearly its entire field of behavioral health nonprofits for no substantive cause. Since then, the number of those seeking services has doubled. Maybe the state should have to step up with the necessary capital to rebuild.
Yet another study finds that for-profit hospice providers are exploiting vulnerable patients and the public by overbilling Medicaid for inappropriate services at a far higher rate than government or nonprofit-run facilities.
In the community of Patchogue, and on Long Island in general, residents struggle to keep their community whole and thriving despite the constant drumbeat of xenophobic rhetoric from politicians at the national and local level. This story provides a peek at the problem as it is experienced in that one community and the response.
Former students of East-West University earn less than high-school dropouts.
Can state law limit the scope of advocacy a membership nonprofit may engage in, or can an association take a stand on any issue its members agree to support?
CVS and the Cleveland Clinic are taking the trend toward drugstore access to clinic services and adding telehealth to the mix. Is this a good or a bad development? As always, technology takes us places and ethicists and legal scholars follow.