Youth Today
Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
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For-Profit Colleges, Allies Spend $4.5 Million Lobbying Against Gainful Employment
For-profit colleges and their allies in the battle against greater regulation by the U.S. Department of Education spent more than $4.5 million...
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Critical Moment to Connect Latino Youth to School and Jobs, Report Says
A report released today by the National Council of La Raza urges organizations to partner with one another to find ways to...
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Education in Juvie
After a long, frustrating wait for action on any juvenile justice-related legislation, the pending reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act...
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Youth Today Guide to For-Profit Schools
For-profit colleges and universities aim their hard-sell marketing pitch at the kids who are least prepared to make informed choices and the...
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Computer-Based GED Test Set to Debut
A computer-based version of the GED will be available at testing centers in four states by next year and is likely to...
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Bill Would Remove Senate Confirmation for Top Juvenile Justice, Child Welfare Jobs
Legislation introduced this month by a bipartisan group of Senators would eliminate Senate confirmation for about 200 executive nominations, including two of...
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Weekly Notes: Recidivism apples vs. Recidivism oranges; juvenile justice and the 2011 budget deal; guide to for-profit colleges; and more
***The staff at Youth Today has been hard at work finishing up our April print issue, which by the way include our...
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Delinquency: The Untold Story of Student Loan Borrowing
Institute for Higher Education Policy Forty-one percent of federal student loan borrowers who started repayment in 2005 have either defaulted on their...
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Another Round of Layoffs at Public/Private Ventures
Public/Private Ventures, a 33-year-old national research organization focused on evaluating programs for low-income communities and using that information to improve effectiveness, last...
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America’s Job…Surplus?
How can it be that today, in the midst of the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression and millions of...
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New Analysis: 25 States Still Have Teen Unemployment Rates Above 25 Percent
Half of the U.S. states have teen unemployment rates above 25 percent, reports the Employment Policies Institute, and its experts say an...
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Vanishing Work Among U.S. Teens, 2000-10: What a Difference a Decade Makes!
Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University This study reveals that since 2000, the employment rate of teens (16 to 19)...
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GED Exam Will Be Computerized before New Version is Unveiled in 2014
A computer-based version of the GED will be available at testing centers in four states by next year and likely will likely...
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Obama’s 2012 Budget and Youth: A Breakdown
President Barack Obama released his 2012 budget today, which would fund most youth-focused programs and agencies at equal or greater levels to...
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Cut-Heavy House Spending Would Eliminate AmeriCorps and YouthBuild, Among Others
Late Friday, the House Appropriations Committee released its proposed continuing resolution bill for fiscal 2011 spending, which includes plans to eliminate completely...
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Weekly Notes: “Social Bonds” for juvenile justice, Luzerne update, and funding from Labor for juveniles
***President Barack Obama’s budget will be the major domestic headline early next week. The proposal will be released on Monday. In a...
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GAO Finds Uncertainty, Overlap Among Federal Job Training Programs
A Government Accountability Office report on federally funded employment and training programs, more than half of which serve youth, shows the roughly...
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Training Is Key in Seeking Partners for Summer Jobs Programs
Faced with the reality of no federal funding for summer job programs this year, workforce board directors are focusing on strategies to...
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Details on Major Labor Dept. Grant Program for 2-Year Colleges
The U.S. Department of Labor issued a solicitation for two-year colleges interested in funding from an overall pot of $2 billion to...
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For-Profits Specialize in Healthcare Fields, but Not the Ones Most Needed
Training students to fill jobs in the so-called allied health professions – a category that includes scores of occupations other than doctor,...
