The future of the nation’s youth anti-drug media campaign – its effectiveness already under scrutiny – grew a shade dimmer when the...
Maryland’s experiment with juvenile boot camps ended in failure in 1999, but it took a perfunctory vote by the state’s Board of...
Youth should be banned from working in poultry plants, construction, trash collection and commercial fishing because the jobs are too dangerous, says...
Jerry Regier, former head of the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and a leader in government programs to...
The Senate Finance Committee last month approved a scaled-down version of legislation to provide incentives to increase charitable giving. The measure includes...
Incompetence, indifference and dereliction of duty led to the disappearance of little Rilya Wilson from her Miami home, a Florida investigative committee...
AmeriCorps volunteers would get more money for education and some VISTA volunteers could work at other jobs under a bill making its...
If early House action on welfare legislation last month is any indication, President Bush will not be enjoying the same kind of...
At a time when it is under scrutiny for how it handles minors from other countries, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service...
President Bush’s call for every American to serve 4,000 hours of community and national service may indeed unleash his “Armies of Compassion,”...
In a setback for gun-control advocates who are focusing on the harm that guns do to children, the Maryland Court of Appeals...
The federal government has moved to eradicate the potentially corrupting influence of youth on politics by banning them from contributing to national...
A litany of accusations about the treatment of youths detained for illegal entry into the U.S. is propelling congressional legislation that would...
Guys normally love to watch girl cheerleaders. But when members of the Girls Project in Manhattan perform their own cheers, any guys...
President George Bush’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2003 would gouge some youth programs to the point of extinction while boosting others...
Proponents of the Younger Americans Act are learning that even a popular bill with the right sponsors can remain inert in Congress,...
High staff turnover and yawning job vacancy rates may have contributed to the vicious attack on a New York youth worker Feb....
With a rare victory over Washington’s education lobby, youth-serving agencies can for the first time directly tap into the federal government’s biggest...