Youth Today
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Spending on Children Is Up, but Mandatory Programs Devour Increases
Total federal spending on children’s programs increased 10.5 percent this year over last year, but the growth is due to mandatory...
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Biggest AmeriCorps Program Gets Slashed
The Corporation for National and Community Service has penalized the largest AmeriCorps program in the nation, but not nearly to the...
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In Information Age, College Access Still Requires That Personal Touch
Baltimore – To help America’s low-income youths navigate the often frustrating and confusing process of getting into college, youth workers and...
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Weekly Notes: Famous Diversion Program Will Likely Close; Ohio Complies with Adam Walsh Act; Curfew Law Struck Down; and more
***Edgar Cahn is busy crafting a strategy to compel JJ systems, using the threat of litigation, to address racial disparities in their...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
AmeriCorps Grants Open With Kennedy Act Changes
Last week, we alerted you to AmeriCorps funding possibilities for youth organizations, but cautioned that the Corporation for National and Community Service...
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Success Stories Abound at Job Corps 45th Anniversary Celebration
With the U.S. Capitol as its stage, Job Corps celebrated its 45th birthday this week with Job Corps students from around...
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Report Details Waste in College Improvement Funds
A Maryland college spent nearly $80,000 in federal grant money on “numerous student trips to locations such as resorts and amusement parks,”...
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Getting Students by Hook or Crook
Fake it ’til you make it. That could easily be the motto of a proprietary college chain that took extraordinary measures...
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News
Report Makes Economic Case for Dropout Fight
The best way to stimulate the economy is to get more students to graduate from high school and go to college. That’s...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Using AmeriCorps To Expand Capacity
An e-mail from The Finance Project is a reminder that federally funded AmeriCorps volunteers can enlarge or augment the activities of youth...
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Should Everyone Go to College?
In the big push to get larger numbers of youths to obtain more than just a high school education, college needs...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Annie E. Casey President Doug Nelson to Retire in 2010
When he walked into Annie E. Casey Foundation’s old headquarters in Greenwich, Conn., in 1990, Doug Nelson thought he was there to...
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News
First Lady Heads Push for Chicago as Site of 2016 Olympics
First Lady Michelle Obama will lead the U.S. delegation trying to secure the 2016 Olympic/Paralympics Games for Chicago, the White House announced...
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Costs Up, Faculty Down at Public Colleges
Higher tuition. Less faculty. That’s the story among colleges and universities throughout the country, according to a new Center on Budget...
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Crime in the United States, 2008
Federal Bureau of Investigation The FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report shows slight declines in violent and property crimes from 2007...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Nonprofits and Health Care
Nonprofits have a large stake in the health care debate, with many worried about how they’re going to continue insuring their nearly...
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Weekly Notes: Missouri Model Goes Primetime; The Mysterious White House Gang Conference; Violence and Truancy in Baltimore; and more
***The fanfare around the Missouri approach to working with juveniles in secure facilities – small community facilities broken into groups of youth,...
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An Update on State Budget Cuts
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Major budget cuts occurring in at least 41 states and the District of Columbia – because...
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World Leader in Percentage of College Graduates by 2020?
The lofty goal of making the United States the world leader in college-degree holders by 2020 is doable, but the reform...
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Supreme Court Will Hear Juvenile LWOP Cases Nov. 9
Mark your calendars for Monday, Nov. 9. That is the day the U.S. Supreme Court has set aside to hear oral arguments...
