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1.5KAlabama’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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1.4KEducation 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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3.3KCOVID 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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2.7KWhy 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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2.2KToolkit 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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2.8KWhen 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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1.9KGeorgia 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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1.7KInjustice 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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2.5KAtlanta 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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3.0KMore Apprenticeships For Young People on Horizon If Federal Legislation Passes
Legislation expands apprenticeships beyond building trades to include occupations like finance or health care.
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6.5KApprenticeship 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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2.0KYoung 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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420Shakespeare 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...
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1.7KRacial Disparities in Youth Incarceration Persist
The Sentencing Project releases a new report discussing how stark racial disparities in the juvenile justice system remain relatively unchanged even as...
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382Reforming Juvenile System For Girls Requires Stories, Three Experts Say
A pregnant teenager stands alone in a cinder-block cell in one image. In another, a young body shivers, curled up in an...
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2.1KAs States Struggle With Budget Cuts, After-school Advocates In NY Push Back
Across the nation, states are tightening their belts as the pandemic cuts into their budgets. Some are feeling a financial shock similar...
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2.9KNYPD Disproportionately Restrains Students Of Color During School Crises, New York City Agency Data Shows
Over 1,500 students were restrained by school safety agents of the NYPD from the first quarter of 2019 through the first quarter...
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2.6KCalifornia Nonprofit Calls On Companies To Offer Foster Youth Internships
In 2020, Tom Fandre had hoped to place at least 90 foster youth in internships in the Silicon Valley area. But when...
