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8th Global Conference, National Youth Service: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
The International Association for National Youth Service (IANYS) This is a report on the 8th Global Conference of the International Association...
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With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them: Myths and Realities About Why So Many Students Fail to Finish College
Public Agenda (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) Only 20 percent of students at two-year colleges graduate within three years and only...
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Student Debt and the Class of 2008
Pew Charitable Trusts The rate of unemployment for college graduates ages 20-24 in 2008 was 7.6 percent; it rose to a...
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Kids’ Share: An Analysis of Federal Expenditures on Children Through 2008
Urban Institute Federal expenditures on children dropped from approximately 20 percent of domestic spending in 1960 to 15 percent in 2008....
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Success Stories From the California Endowment’s Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs
California Endowment The California Endowment has compiled information about obesity prevention programs that work and found that the successful initiatives included after-school...
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Generation M²: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds
Kaiser Family Foundation The average child’s overall media consumption increased by one hour and 17 minutes every day between 2004 and...
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Teens and Sexting
Pew Charitable Trusts A 2009 telephone survey of 800 teens between the ages of 12 and 17, as well as a series...
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Growing What Works
Public/Private Ventures Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) draws six recommendations from its seven years of working with the Nurse-Family Partnership program in Pennsylvania....
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Between Two Worlds: How Young Latinos Come of Age in America
Pew Hispanic Center Latino youth are more likely than other American youth to drop out of school, become teenage parents, and...
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Strengthening Indian Country Through Tribal Youth Programs
American Youth Policy Forum & Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention This report on Tribal Youth Programs (TYPs), which help...
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Good Intentions: The Beliefs and Values of Teens and Tweens Today
Girl Scout Research Institute (GRSI) and Harris Interactive Youth today are far more committed to being responsible, valuing diversity, being accepting...
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The Effects of the Recession on Child Poverty: Poverty Statistics for 2008 and Growth in Need during 2009
Brookings Institution and First FocusU.S. Census Bureau Two new research reports provide evidence of the impact of the recession on child...
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Federal Earmarks for Youth Agencies Fall in 2010
Click image for a four-page earmark spread or click here for a searchable Excel spreadsheet The number of youth earmarks continues its...
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Squeeze Play 2010: Continued Public Anxiety on Cost, Harsher Judgements on How Colleges are Run
The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education and Public Agenda According to a survey conducted by The National Center for...
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College- and Career- Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
This report focuses on a new way of determining which high schools are turning out the students best prepared to take on...
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Federal Earmarks 2010
The number of youth earmarks continues its descent in the fiscal 2010 federal budget. Youth Today found 813 earmarks by poring over...
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Teen Births and Abortions Are Up
Teen pregnancy and abortion rates are on the rise, according to a new report, but it’s hard to know exactly why. The...
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Children and Youth Initiatives Entangled in Health Care Uncertainty
Abstinence education, teen pregnancy prevention, family visitation and health care for foster kids – these are just a few of the youth...
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Labor Department Urges Agencies to Tap TANF Funds to Subsidize Summer Jobs for Youths
Saying nearly all of the Recovery Act money for summer youth employment programs has been spent, the U.S. Employment and Training Administration...
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Labor Department Releases More Green Jobs Training Grants
More than three dozen organizations – including several community colleges and youth-serving agencies – will split $150 million in “green jobs” grants...
