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More Than 2 Dozen States, Cities Sue To Block Census Citizenship Question

Release Date: 
05/01/2018

HARTFORD, CT -- New York state is leading a group of 18 states, 10 cities, four counties and the U.S. Conference of Mayors in a lawsuit against the Census Bureau and Commerce Department to try to remove a new citizenship question from the 2020 census questionnaire. It was originally filed April 3, more than a week after California filed a similar lawsuit in San Francisco federal court against Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the bureau, and Census Bureau officials. The city of San Jose, Calif., as well as a group of individuals from Maryland and Arizona, have also taken separate legal actions to block the citizenship question. The states joining New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court are Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington. 

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Census 2020

CT Philanthropy Digest - December 2018

Release Date: 
12/17/2018
FEATURED PHILANTHROPY NEWS >> Tras la Tormenta: Puerto Rico One Year After Maria >> ... Towns to Benefit from Town-specific Endowed Funds >> Good News: Long Island Sound Report Card Reveals Substantial ... Workshop Announced >> POLICY UPDATE >> PHILANTHROPY NEWS LINKS >> GRANTS and RFPS >> THE POWER OF GOOD PEOPLE >> ...

The Problem With Charitable Giving

Release Date: 
11/27/2018

NEW YORK, NY -- Starting this fall, and well into the future, medical students at New York University will get free tuition. In a few years, shiny new facilities will welcome cancer patients in Atlanta and brain researchers at Stanford. The announcements about these developments credit generous philanthropists, but fail to mention who else is footing much of the bill: American taxpayers. Like most charitable giving, health care philanthropy is tax-deductible. When wealthy people give away millions of dollars, their tax bills go down. But that leaves the rest of us either to pick up the slack or go without the investments that our government could have made with those funds.

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