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1.5KLGBTQ Youth in the Workplace
The Trevor Project uses data from its 2020 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health to examine and discuss the experiences of...
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2.8KAmerican Rescue Plan Gives Out-of-school Time Programs Big Role in Pandemic Recovery,OST Reporting Project
The latest COVID-19 relief package, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, includes a huge chunk of money to benefit young people. Of...
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3.2KHaving a Mentor With the Same Disability Is Important, Young People and Research Agree
Hannah Weitzman is almost 10 and the only kid with hearing loss in her neighborhood in Chappaqua, New York. When her family...
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1.8KAbused, Often Homeless, Florida Man Got 2 Life Sentences At 17
In the decades after the civil rights era, Black communities in Jacksonville remained disproportionately impoverished, blighted and policed. Some activists would say...
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3.1KFlorida Attorney Believes Lead Poisoning Is Partial Explanation For Low-income Neighborhood Crimes
Teri Sopp’s former self stares down from a wall in Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit Public Defender’s Office. The painting, a gift more...
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2.4KSurvey: Pandemic Slashed Sports For Low-income Youth
Sports programs serving low-income communities have seen a big drop in youth participation because of the pandemic, according to a survey of...
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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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2.1KToolkit 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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2.6KWhen 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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1.4KChildhood 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.
