The Ford Foundation and four others plan to dramatically increase their spending, a splurge financed in part by issuing debt.
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Nicholas KulishSCOOP: Ford Foundation selling $1 billion in bonds so it has more money to hand out in this year of crisis. @JamesStewartNYT and me.
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He fled Warsaw when the Nazis invaded, flew 100 missions over Krakow, and made a life as an architect in Poland, Egypt and the United States. He died of the coronavirus in New York.
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Nicholas KulishA refugee, a soldier, an immigrant, a pilot, an architect. Jerzy Glowczewski faced death many times in his 97 years. He died of Covid-19 in a New York nursing home.
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A for-profit company bought three struggling hospitals in West Virginia and Ohio. Doctors were fired, supplies ran low and many in need of care had to journey elsewhere. Then the doors shut for good.
Ventilators aren’t the only machines in intensive care units that are in short supply. Doctors have been confronting an unexpected rise in patients with failing kidneys.
While President Trump has assured states that thousands of ventilators remain at the ready, thousands more are in storage, unmaintained, broken or otherwise unusable.
As the coronavirus spreads, the collapse of the project helps explain America’s acute shortage.
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Nicholas KulishPROJECT AURA: The head of the CDC sees a prototype for a cheap, easy-to-use, portable ventilator … that was 9 years ago. It never got made. @sarahkliff, @jbsgreenberg and I explored why. THREAD / 1
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President Trump wants the private sector to fill the urgent need for the lifesaving devices. Experts say that strategy may doom the thousands who will need them in the coming weeks.
The former mayor’s philanthropy has been a boon for progressive causes, earning support from Democrats nationwide even as parts of his record give them pause.
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Nicholas KulishTo try to put Mike Bloomberg's philanthropy in context he gave away the equivalent of $10 for each and every person in American just last year
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Michael Bloomberg is relying on powerful city leaders as allies in his presidential campaign. Several have received grants, training and support packages totaling millions from his foundation.
“The Camp of the Saints,” published in 1973, has been a must-read within white supremacist circles for decades. Stephen Miller, Marine Le Pen and Steve King have touted it in recent years.
The former leader of the largest nonprofit group running shelters for migrant children received $3.6 million in compensation in the group’s latest fiscal year, according to tax records.