Youth Today
News
-
2.4KReport: More than 5 million children orphaned by global COVID pandemic with numbers still climbing
Researchers publish a new report in The Lancet showing how many children have been orphaned by the COVID pandemic.
-
986Activism grows nationwide in response to school book bans
Over the past year, book challenges and bans have reached levels not seen in decades, according to officials at the American Library...
-
942Pfizer shots protect kids from severe COVID even in omicron
Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine gave children 5 and older strong protection against hospitalization and death even during the omicron surge that hit youngsters...
-
1.5KQ&A: Making more room for Black fathers to be involved in their children’s education
Tasha Alston, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s inaugural chief diversity and inclusion officer, says her first book urges the broad public...
-
1.4KUN report: Today’s children will see massive increase in climate extremes
Deadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is likely going to make the world...
-
2.0KQ&A: Exalt’s Gisele Castro on the importance of New York’s “raise the age” law
Exalt is a nonprofit in New York City. Giselle Castro talks about Exalt's work and their "raise the age" efforts. They work...
-
1.6KShould a sex trafficking defense apply in a homicide case?
What looks like a clear-cut case of criminal homicide could actually be legal under a Wisconsin law that absolves sex trafficking victims...
-
1.4KParents of teen charged in school shooting to stand trial
A judge on Thursday ordered the parents of a 15-year-old boy charged with killing four students at his Michigan high school to...
-
892Texas governor order treats gender-confirming care as abuse
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the state's child welfare agency to investigate reports of gender-confirming care for kids as abuse,...
-
1.6KOxford student seeks gun reform: ‘We deserve to feel safe’
Zoe Touray called for gun reform and school mental health services alongside others Wednesday on the Michigan Capitol steps as she shared...
-
2.0KNew Mexico to create new legal aid office for child welfare cases
Child welfare professionals in New Mexico are applauding passage of a bill they say will improve legal representation for youth and families...
-
1.4KTrayvon Martin, 10 years later: Teen’s death changes nation
Trayvon Martin's final night began with a convenience store run, a quick trip for candy and something to drink. It ended in...
-
932South Carolina governor names new chief of juvenile justice agency
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said Tuesday that he is appointing an attorney who has temporarily steered the state's struggling Department of...
-
2.2KNative activists hail passage of New Mexico Indian Family Protection Act
New Mexico lawmakers have passed a bill that strengthens protections for Native American children in state care. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is...
-
1.3KOnline harassment, real harm: Fixing the web’s biggest bug
Online harassment has become such a familiar part of the internet that it can be hard to imagine the web without it....
-
5.3KNew Mexico’s first Native family court points to success keeping kids in tribal communities
New Mexico’s first Native family court, based in Albuquerque, is dedicated to hearing child welfare cases that fall under the Indian Child...
-
1.2KNew Mexico lawmakers, citing political frustrations, pull juvenile justice reform bill
Proposed reforms to New Mexico’s juvenile sentencing rules failed to become law for a second year in a row after the bill’s...
-
1.2KNational Guard deploys for new emergency: Teacher shortages
While many other states and school districts issued pleas for substitute teachers amid omicron-driven surges in infections, New Mexico has been alone...
-
5.2KLawmakers, federal investigators target teen facilities billed as therapeutic but accused of abuse
Separate investigations by the federal Government Accountability Office and Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general that were launched in 2021,...
-
877From campus to Congress, colleges urged to end legacy boost
America's elite colleges are facing growing calls to end the decades-old tradition of giving an admissions boost to the children of alumni...
