Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Forced From Home: The Lost Boys and Girls of Central America

Grants Awarded: July – September 2012

    Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ (206) 709-3100 Seattle, WA Athabasca University, to provide conference support to Massive Open Online...

Employment and Unemployment Among Youth

The Economic Value of Opportunity Youth

Applications Now Available for CJJR’s Information Sharing Certificate Program

The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University‘s Public Policy Institute, in partnership with the Juvenile Law Center, has announced its inaugural Information Sharing Certificate...

Pew Research Report – Young, Underemployed and Optimistic: Coming of Age, Slowly, in a Tough Economy

Children in the United States – Report and Factsheet

Young Inmates Doing Thyme in the Prison Garden

On a football-field-sized stretch of land beside the Walton County Jail in tiny Monroe, Ga., a tractor tiller turned weed-choked rows of...

Getting Up: Improving Youth Outcomes with Graffiti in Denver

Graffiti is a common site in the neighborhood around the Access Art Gallery in Denver – not inside, hanging on the walls...

A Look at Youth-Related Spending in Obama’s 2013 Budget (Updated 2/14)

President Barack Obama unveiled his 2013 budget proposal today, which calls for $3.8 trillion in spending and projects a $901 billion deficit...

From the YT Archives: The Push for More L3Cs

President Barack Obama spent part of his hour-long State of the Union address Tuesday discussing a partnership between business and academia aimed...

State of the Union Speech Touches on DREAM Act, Dropout Laws and Job Training

President Barack Obama delivered his third State of the Union speech last night, an hour-long oratory that focused mostly on success in...

Potential 2012 Appropriations Deal A Vague and Mixed Bag for Youth Programs

Note: This story was corrected to reflect an accurate figure for the Corporation for National and Community Service Head Start is poised...

Federal Budget Watch 2012

Congress has approved deep cuts in federal juvenile justice funding for 2012, but neither the House nor the Senate has voted on...

Too Many Schools

Note: This column is reprinted with permission from Represent Magazine. A.L.’s heartfelt words are particularly timely this week after a Senate committee passed...

Senate Education Rewrite Halted Abruptly by Angry Senator

A Senate committee’s markup of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was stopped abruptly early this afternoon when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.),...

Cities with Highest Black and Latino Unemployment

Hispanic  unemployment  highest in Northeast metropolitan areas High black unemployment widespread across nation’s metropolitan areas Economic Policy Institute These new studies by...

Audit Questions Job Corps Placement Claims

A new audit by the Labor Department’s Inspector General accuses its Job Corps program of doing exactly what the Education Department accuses...

House Approps Would Eliminate AmeriCorps, Increase Head Start Funding

The House Appropriations Committee made public today a proposed spending bill that would eliminate AmeriCorps, increase funding for Head Start and limit...

Community College Groups Receive $500 Million in Job-Training Grants

Almost $500 million in grants to increase graduation rates and provide new job-specific community college programs targeted at unemployed workers were announced...