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Overview of Relevant Employment Laws and Cases of Sex Offenders at Child Care Facilities
U.S. Government Accountability Office This U.S. Government Accountability Office study looked at state laws governing sex offenders’ employment in child-care facilities and...
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Senate Approps Approves Health, Labor and Education Spending Bill
Note: This story was updated on Sept. 29 The Senate Appropriation Committee approved a spending bill for the Departments of Education, Labor,...
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Sally Prouty Resigns as The Corps Network’s CEO
Sally Prouty, who had headed the Corps Network since 2002, announced today that she will step down as president and CEO in...
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Abusive Head Trauma Cases Involving Young Children Increased During Recession
Abusive Head Trauma During a Time of Increased Unemployment: A Multicenter Analysis Pediatrics The number of abusive head trauma injuries to children...
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Sally Prouty Resigns as The Corps Network’s CEO
Sally Prouty, who had headed the Corps Network since 2002, announced today that she will step down as president and CEO in...
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What Prompts Youths to Carry Guns?
Specifying the Role of Exposure to Violence and Violent Behavior on Initiation of Gun Carrying: A Longitudinal Test of Three Models of...
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Dropouts Face a Future with More Jobs But Less Options, Study Finds
The number of jobs available to dropouts and high school graduates will go up this decade, but there also will be far...
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Senate Approps Cuts Federal Juvenile Programs Deeply, But Funds All of Them
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a spending bill this afternoon that would fund the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Programs...
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Results from the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Use of illicit drugs by youth is still way down from earlier in the decade,...
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The Impact of Bullying Climate on Schoolwide Academic Performance
Virginia Youth Violence Project The pervasiveness of bullying has an effect on the academic performance of students, according to findings from the...
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Downward Mobility from the Middle Class: Waking Up from the American Dream
The Pew Charitable Trusts One-third of Americans who grow up in a middle-class family, defined as between 30 percent and 70 percent...
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College Default Rate Rises to 8.8 percent
The overall two-year default rates of students with federal student loans rose to 8.8 percent last year, from 7 percent a year...
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Obama Plan Includes Summer Jobs for Youth, Unemployment Protection for Families
Note: This article was updated and corrected Sept. 9. President Barack Obama laid out a job creation plan tonight that includes funding...
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Report Pushes Advocates to Seek Structural, Not Just Financial, Changes to Juvenile Justice Systems
The time is ripe for some states to reduce their reliance on youth incarceration, according to a report issued today by a...
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Newsmakers September 2011
Nonprofits The Girl Scouts of the USA selected one of its own to succeed Kathy Cloninger as its chief executive officer. Anna...
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Child Maltreatment: Strengthening National Data on Child Fatalities Could Aid in Prevention,
Government Accountability Office Officially, the number of children who died of maltreatment in the United States in 2009 was 1,770. That’s the...
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Remedial Education
Some call it the Bermuda Triangle of higher education. Some see it as a needless expense – double payment for students to...
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Collateral Damage
What American news outlet hasn’t carried a heart-wrenching picture of a 5- or 6-year old sobbing uncontrollably as the father or mother...
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The Plight of Unaccompanied Mexican Minors
In December 2010, Washington attorney Jennifer Podkul received a call from the Department of Homeland Security inspector general’s office, asking to speak...
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Who Can Protect Youth Spending This Year?
As Congress prepares this month to take on a full slate of federal spending bills, research on federal expenditures from the Urban...
