RALEIGH, N.C. — RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is leaving his job…
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Billion-dollar donation from Netflix’s Reed Hastings leads 2024’s list of biggest gifts
The Chronicle’s annual list of the biggest charitable donations from individuals or their foundations totaled nearly…
Louisiana House greenlights Gov. Jeff Landry’s tax cuts
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana’s GOP-dominated House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed individual and corporate…
USDA bans school lunch fees for low-income families
NEW YORK — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that students eligible for free or reduced…
National grantmakers bet this rural education program can scale
In 2010, Dreama Gentry met Geoffrey Canada, founder of Harlem Children’s Zone, a much-lauded nonprofit that…
Appeals judges rule against fund used to provide phone services for rural and low-income people
NEW ORLEANS — Calling it a “misbegotten tax,” a federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled…