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National Service Watchdog Focused on Restoring Budget, Preventing Waste

People who know Deborah Jeffrey, the newly confirmed Inspector General at the Corporation for National and Community Service, call her a problem-solver:...

FCC Announce Plans to Increase Broadband Internet Access in US

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Connect2Compete have launched a computer recycling and donation drive to benefit low-income households, with the intent...

America’s Children in Brief 2012: Key National Indicators of Well-Being

Experts Weigh in on Report Detailing High Number of LGBT Homeless

CHICAGO-After the Williams Institute, True Colors Fund and the Palette Fund released a critical study on LGBT youth homelessness last month, Chicago-based...

Federal Report Finds Health Conditions Mixed for Nation’s Youth

Recently, the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics released the 2012 edition of its annual America’s Children in Brief: Key National...

Immigration Policy Center – Who and Where the DREAMers Are

Survey: Most Young Adults Do Not Know Their State Voting Laws

A new survey of young adults finds widespread confusion over voting rules and requirements, including registration, early voting and voting identification, a...

More than a Million Youths May Benefit from Obama’s New ‘Deferred Action’ Plan

According to a new report released by the Immigration Policy Center, as many as 1.4 million immigrants currently living in the United...

American Indian Youth Seek Kinship at Intertribal Summit

CHEVY CHASE, Md. – Chloe Gardner, 14, Alyssa Ludvick, 15, and Alaina Kuchenoff, 16, left their remote Alaskan island early Thursday afternoon to...

‘For-Profit’ Colleges Slammed in New Senate Report

Earlier this week, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) released a report on for-profit colleges, the end result of a two-year study of the...

Penn State to Administer $60 Million Child Welfare Fund

Pennsylvania State University says it will administer the $60 million fund for prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse mandated by an...

Maya Angelou, Parents of Trayvon Martin Call On Youth to Defeat Violence

Grad Nation Campaign Releases Handbook for Grassroots Activity

Last spring, America’s Promise Alliance released a new communications handbook titled Raising Your Voice: Communications Planning for Youth-Serving Organizations.  The manual is...

Social Media, Social Life: How Teens View Their Digital Lives

Profile: Foster Kid Turned Youth Worker Leads by Example

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...

Legislators Rally for Multiple Youth-Targeted Proposals at D.C. Conference

Last week, Children Uniting Nations kicked off its seventh-annual national conference with an event in Washington, D.C. called “Keeping the Promise to...

New Reports Underscore Fears of Child Welfare Activists

CINCINNATI – Jonathan Ferrera, 18, knows what poverty feels like. He’s had times when his family has worried about going hungry or...

CNCS watchdog sworn in at time of budgetary threats

WASHINGTON – Washington lawyer Deborah J. Jeffrey was sworn in last week as the new inspector-general of the Corporation for National and...

Higher Expectations Reduce Achievement Gap for Black Boys, Panelists Say

CINCINNATI – The middle school years represent a critical time in the development of black males, the period where most young boys...

At a Georgia Conference, an All-Out Assault on Zero-Tolerance

“There’s a marvelous program,” said child welfare attorney Leslie Stewart. A county-employed psychologist roams an elementary school in a neighborhood beset by...