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Print Continue to article content Democratic mayoral candidate Andrew Yang's signature entrepreneurial accomplishment has fallen far short of the job creation goals that it set out to do. | Mark Lennihan/AP Photo Yang describes himself as serial entrepreneur, but he often worked for someone else NEW YORK — In 2015, President Barack Obama named Andrew Yang an ambassador of global entrepreneurship as part of a White House program to promote economic activity around the world. The award is a keystone in Yang’s backstory as a serial entrepreneur with deep experience in the startup world — ...

Research By Emily Haynes Charities that directly responded to the health crisis or advocated for relief saw giving grow at nearly twice the rate as those that didn’t, according to a new poll. Grants Roundup By M.J. Prest Also, Wayfair has given $20 million to LISC for its Black Economic Development Fund, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation gave $1.4 million to Michigan State U. for its Enslaved.org database to document the genealogy of families during the historical slave trade. Nonprofit News Fr...

Government Executive email Our natural optimism points in one direction, even as recent history points in another. Last spring, Jared Kushner predicted that the coronavirus pandemic would soon end and that the United States would be “really rocking again” by July. Some critics saw his statement, which proved so fatally wrong, as a form of deceit. I saw evidence of something more pitiful: Kushner had fallen prey to optimism bias and availability bias. Optimism clouded his judgment. He wanted things to be better in July, so he assumed they would be. And his thinking was limited by t...

He’s running for New York mayor as a real estate foe. Why do some developers support him? POLITICO 2/9/2021 By Sally Goldenberg and Joe Anuta © Richard Drew/AP Photo New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer prepares to speak at the National Action Network House of Justice, in New York, Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. NEW YORK — Actor Scarlett Johansson blasted an email in December seeking donations for New York City mayoral candidate Scott Stringer, citing his commitment to small businesses, education and survivors of domestic violence. But she saved her most effusive praise f...

A career politician born into a family of elected officials, Stringer has demonstrated an ability to navigate New York’s choppy political waters.