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1.9KSounding the Alarm: Criminalization of Black Girls in Florida
The Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center releases a new report discussing the stark inequities facing black girls in the Florida juvenile justice...
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1.6KCitywide After-school Systems Are Sustaining Themselves, Report Finds
Citywide after-school systems have staying power, according to a recent comparison of U.S. city systems in 2013 and 2020. “More than three-quarters of...
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1.7KElizabeth Lindsey is the New CEO of Urban Alliance
Elizabeth Lindsey is the new chief executive officer (CEO) of Urban Alliance, succeeding seven-year CEO, Eshauna Smith, on April 12, 2021.
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1.4KQ&A: Cover Alabama Coalition Director — Why Medicaid Expansion Hasn’t Been a Priority
Alabama is entering the 2021 legislative session, one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. For advocacy groups serving working-class families, Medicaid expansion is...
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1.5KIn Alabama, State Legislators (In Private), Republicans Agree Medicaid Expansion Needed More Than Ever
For a decade, expansion had been unpopular with conservative voters too, in part because of its ties to the Democratic former president...
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1.4KAlabama’s Essential Workers Lack Access to Basic Health Care, Services, Report Says
The “essential workers” hailed as pandemic heroes often lack the basic protections of a living wage, health insurance, paid sick leave and...
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1.3KEducation Borders in Atlanta
The Urban Institute discusses the effects of school district boundaries on the racial segregation of schools in Atlanta.
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3.2KCOVID Relief Bill Would Reduce Child Poverty, Aid Youth Programming
COVID relief funding from the federal government, if passed into law, will make a historic reduction in child poverty and could also...
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2.5KWhy Teenage Christian Picciolini Joined, Then Quit White Power Movement
Christian Picciolini, 14, was hanging out one day in an alley near the intersection of Union and Division streets in Chicago. An older...
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2.0KToolkit Can Help OST Workers Band Together to Respond to Hate Messages
RUSSIAN FEDERATION/SHUTTERSTOCK What do you do if you find racist graffiti on a wall near your school or youth program? Or come...
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2.5KWhen Hate Groups Recruit Youth: Teacher, Former White Nationalist Tell How to Counter It
Nora Flanagan’s first brush with hate group recruiting took place when she was 15 and living in Beverly, a southwest Chicago neighborhood....
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1.3KChildhood in the Time of COVID
Save the Children releases a new report analyzing how COVID has impacted children and families around the nation while ranking each state...
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1.8KGeorgia Disabilities Organization Focused on Lobbying For More Medicaid Waivers This Year
One Atlanta organization is taking steps to make sure disability issues are being heard and considered at Georgia’s 40-day legislative session. For about...
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2.1KNational 4-H Council Appoints Ivan Heredia Senior VP and Chief Marketing Officer
The National 4-H Council recently announced the appointment of Ivan Heredia as its new senior vice president and chief marketing officer.
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1.6KInjustice in the Lower Courts: How Municipal Courts Rob America’s Youth
The Juvenile Law Center discusses the oft-overlooked role that municipal courts play in harming the prospects of American youth through unnecessary incarcerations...
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2.4KAtlanta Nonprofit Teaches ‘Storytelling,’ Provides Pathway to Film, Digital Work
In Atlanta, the center of the South’s burgeoning film industry, a small nonprofit is bringing digital media and film-making skills to young...
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2.9KMore Apprenticeships For Young People on Horizon If Federal Legislation Passes
MONKEYBUSINESSIMAGES/SHUTTERSTOCK Apprenticeship programs could soon expand in the United States, opening up more pathways for young people to earn while they learn....
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6.2KApprenticeship Program Aims To Open Film Industry To Under-represented Young People
Not long after graduating from Lakeside High School in Atlanta, Yabsira Gebrewubet found himself working at a Publix grocery store in the...
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1.9KYoung Activists, CLASP Call For New Deal To Get Youth Jobs
A group of student activists ages 14 to 25 is urging the Biden administration and Congress to create a plan for youth...
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346Shakespeare Part Of Enrichment For Incarcerated Youth In One Tennessee County
When Michael Khanlarian began teaching incarcerated youth about the work of William Shakespeare, he never expected them to develop a rap about...
