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Teen Births Down, But Latinas Lag

Birth rates for black and white teens (ages 15 to 19) continue to fall at a much faster pace than those for...

Reynolds Burned For Reaching Kids

It has not been an easy spring for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., the brightest target on the radar when it comes to...

INS Agrees Guinean Immigrant is a Minor

At a time when it is under scrutiny for how it handles minors from other countries, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service...

Congress Acts on Youth

If early House action on welfare legislation last month is any indication, President Bush will not be enjoying the same kind of...

Child Labor Group’s Depressing Picture

When Lewis Hine took his historic pictures of child laborers as a photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) from 1908...

News Briefs for May 2002

Virtual Porn is Constitutional – In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 1996 law prohibiting the use of...

No Beer, No War, and Now This…

The federal government has moved to eradicate the potentially corrupting influence of youth on politics by banning them from contributing to national...

More Meal Money for Youth Programs

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is trying to get more youth organizations to take its money to feed kids this summer....

Child’s Death Not Gun Maker’s Fault

In a setback for gun-control advocates who are focusing on the harm that guns do to children, the Maryland Court of Appeals...

News Briefs for April 2002

Pollution Kills Children Environmental hazards account for the annual death of approximately 3 million children under age 5 worldwide, according to the...

Youth as Peacemakers

Some 1,200 youths marched through Northern Virginia Feb. 19 to emphasize the role of youth in preventing violence and crime. The march...

Will Drug Ads Bowl Kids Over?

Aside from watching football, humorous beer commercials and Britney Spears, Super Bowl fans were the first to glimpse the Office of National...

News Briefs for March 2002

Gay Adoptions OK: Citing the estimated 9 million children in the United States with at least one gay parent, the American Academy...

Teen’s Suicide May Prompt New Rules on Student Pilots

Four days after a 15-year-old flight student committed suicide by flying a plane into a Florida building, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...

As Kids Do Better, Should CBOs Get Credit?

With across-the-board improvements revealed in this year’s “America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2001” report (see page 40), some observers think...

NAACP Youths Lead Hotel Boycott

The NAACP youth unit pledged to involve 5,000 youngsters in a 23-city boycott of the Adam’s Mark Hotel chain, kicking off the...

States Blow Smoke At Prevention Efforts, Study Says

Smoking tempers and words greeted a recent report claiming that just 5 percent of the $206 billion tobacco settlement with 46 states...

New Funds for Older Foster Youth

The Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation and Seattle-based Casey Family Programs (CSF) have created the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative to help,...