People who know Deborah Jeffrey, the newly confirmed Inspector General at the Corporation for National and Community Service, call her a problem-solver:...
A new survey of young adults finds widespread confusion over voting rules and requirements, including registration, early voting and voting identification, a...
CHEVY CHASE, Md. – Chloe Gardner, 14, Alyssa Ludvick, 15, and Alaina Kuchenoff, 16, left their remote Alaskan island early Thursday afternoon to...
Editor’s Note: This week, Smith, Youth Today’s Washington, D.C. correspondent, is reporting from Cincinnati where some 3,000 people are attending a convention...
CINCINNATI – The middle school years represent a critical time in the development of black males, the period where most young boys...
WASHINGTON – Washington lawyer Deborah J. Jeffrey was sworn in last week as the new inspector-general of the Corporation for National and...
CINCINNATI – Jonathan Ferrera, 18, knows what poverty feels like. He’s had times when his family has worried about going hungry or...
CINCINNATI – Marian Wright Edelman sees this as a “do or die” moment for American democracy. The first black woman to join...
Youth advocates are ringing the alarm bells at Congress’s proposed levels of funding for state programs that would prevent young people from...
WASHINGTON – Corey Foster, 16, was playing basketball with his friends at his school in Yonkers, N.Y., in April, when a staff...
WASHINGTON – Despite pointed criticism from some lawmakers, the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved a bipartisan bill that pushes for harsher penalties for...
Maryland is on track to establish a state-run marketplace allowing individuals and small businesses to compare rates and benefits for private health...
Yesterday’s affirmation of the federal Affordable Care Act by the U.S. Supreme Court maintains several important health care provisions that protect the...
UPDATED Tuesday, 9:23 a.m.: WASHINGTON – Advocates for juvenile justice reform applauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 5-to-4 ruling yesterday that children under 18...
WASHINGTON – A mix of around 250 child welfare workers, law enforcement officials, public officials and nonprofit employees from 49 states and territories,...
While most of the nation anxiously awaits a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the federal health care...
WASHINGTON – With only 10 days to go before interest rates on some government-subsidized student loans are to double, Democrats and Republicans...
WASHINGTON -The country’s largest funder of service and volunteer programs is one step closer to filling a leadership vacancy at its watchdog...
WASHINGTON -An extraordinary collection of nearly 1,250 secret files kept by the Boy Scouts of America to document cases of child sex...