Youth Today
Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
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Ingrid Dahl
Ingrid Dahl, Editor EditorYouth Media ReporterNew York(212) 367-4623www.youthmediareporter.org Age: 27 Salary: $44,000-49,000 About Youth Media Reporter: This website and professional journal serves...
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Superintendents of Learning
Superintendents rock! I’ve never started a column like this before, certainly not one about school administrators – the people with whom youth...
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Teens at Work: My First Job
VOX, Atlanta When I turned 15, it seemed like everyone my age had money – except me. On Mondays at school, I...
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America’s Youth at 20: School Enrollment, Training, and Employment Transitions Between Ages 19 and 20
U.S. Department of Labor Twenty-year-old females are 20 percent more likely to be enrolled in college than are their male counterparts, says...
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The Collapse of the National Teen Job Market and the Case for an Immediate Youth Jobs Creation Program
Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University Employment rates for 16- to 19-year-olds have been declining or stagnant since 1989, and the...
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The Early Care and Education Teaching Workforce at the Fulcrum:An Agenda for Reform
Sharon Lynn Kagan, Kristie Kauerz, Kate TarrantTeachers College Press179 pages. $31.95. Who cares for and educates two thirds of American children from...
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Local Schools Give Youth Workers More Class
Thinking Cap: Tyrone Jones of Our House weighs in. Photo: Matt Spangler Catonsville, Md.—Assistant Professor Lisa Boone raps a finger on the...
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Andrew Bennett
Andrew Bennett Teen CoordinatorNew York State Museum Albany, N.Y. (518) 486-1420www.nysm.nysed.gov/education Age: 21Salary: $14 per hour. About the New York State Museum:...
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Street Outreach Goes Suburban
Minneapolis—When outreach worker Amanda Danielson sets out to connect with homeless and runaway youth, she does not walk into the supply room...
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How to Retain Youth Workers
The article in November regarding the work force crisis [“This Just In: Good Help is Hard to Find”] raises interesting points about...
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Web Watch for November 2007
Child Welfare Adoption Learning Partnerswww.adoptionlearningpartners.org/courses/overview.cfmTwo new online courses at this site aim to educate prospective adoptive parents about a variety of...
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Fighting Poverty through Incentives and Work Mandates for Young Men
In this policy brief featured in a recent issue of the journal The Future of Children, Brookings senior fellow Ron Haskins examines...
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Depression among Adults Employed Full-Time, by Occupational Category
Depression negatively affects U.S. industries through lost productivity, employee absenteeism and low morale. Each year, companies lose an estimated $30 billion to...
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This Just In: Good Help is Hard to Find
"Good help is so hard to find these days."– Jafar, in "The Return of Jafar" Let’s admit right off the bat that...
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Career Development Program
Murray, Utah(801) 284-4260www.bgcsv.org Objective: Instill a work ethic and career interest in youth by connecting them to community partners involved in...
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Tom Coyne
Philadelphia(215) 262-1459www.sparkthewave.org Age: 27 Salary: $12,000 for 20 hours a week. About the Program: The nonprofit Spark the Wave (STW) partners with...
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Lifting the Abandoned Children of Katrina
New Orleans, La.—If you run a youth program in a poor community, you probably feel that you don’t have enough resources, that...
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Is There Common Ground? An Exploratory Study of the Interests and Needs of Community-Based and Faith-Based Youth Workers
National Collaboration for Youth/Search Institute Youth workers from community-based youth development settings and faith-based settings agree that it is essential that they...
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CNCS Requires New Background Checks
Call it service with a smile – and a background check. A new final rule issued by the Corporation for National and...
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Girl Power
Fast Company Seventeen-year-old Ashley Qualls has built the 349th most popular website in the world (out of more than 20 million) without...
