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An Update on State Budget Cuts
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Major budget cuts occurring in at least 41 states and the District of Columbia – because...
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Vulnerable Youth and the Transition to Adulthood
Urban Institute Eight new research briefs on youth transitions to early adulthood are now available and include two unexpected findings: 1....
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Afterschool Workforce Development Strategies: From Recruitment to Career Pathways
Children Now After-school workforce development projects that focus their outreach efforts on specific demographics, such as high school and college students,...
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Extending Foster Care to Age 21: Benefits, Costs and Opportunities for States
Chapin Hall and National Governors Association This Web conference examines the possible impact of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing...
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Volunteering in America
Corporation for National and Community Service The number of young adults (16 to 24 years old) who volunteered in 2008 rose...
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Career and Technical Education: States Have Broad Flexibility in Implementing Perkins IV
U.S. Government Accountability Office States are doing what they can to implement performance measures under a federal accountability law for career...
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Workforce Investment Act Needs Updating, Agency Says
Jobs for the Future (JFF) There’s no shortage of ideas about how to retool the Workforce Investment Act in order to...
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Trends in Child Health 1997-2006: Assessing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Diagnoses of ADHD/ADD and of Learning Disability
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Although it makes no effort to establish possible causes, and some of its findings...
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Synthesis of 10 Case Studies: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Simplified or joint forms, the elimination of face-to-face interviews, a centralized system for eligibility processing and...
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Rite of Passage? Why Young Adults Become Uninsured and How New Policies Can HelpThe Commonwealth Fund
More than 13 million young people ages 19 to 29 lacked health insurance coverage in 2007 because of the structure of...
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America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics An annual federal interagency report shows a few small changes in the well-being...
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School Meal Program Participation and Its Association with Dietary Patterns and Childhood Obesity
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Eat a good breakfast. That’s the bottom line on this federal study of eating...
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A Guide to Effective Investments in Positive Youth Development: Implications of Research for Financing and Sustaining Programs and Services for Youth
The Finance Project This paper reviews some of the most recent research on what makes an effective youth development program, and seeks...
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Individual and Social Influences on Progression to Daily Smoking During Adolescence
American Academy of Pediatrics Adolescents whose friends and parents smoke are at greater risk of progressing from merely experimenting with cigarettes...
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Fathering with Multiple Partners Associated with Poor Outcomes in Early Childhood
Child Trends Children whose fathers have offspring with multiple partners experience increased behavioral problems and poorer physical health early in life,...
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Rural Children Are More Likely to Live in Cohabiting-Couple Households
Carsey Institute The poor economy may have contributed to a rise in the number of rural children living with cohabitating, unmarried...
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Fathering with Multiple Partners Associated with Poor Outcomes in Early Childhood
Child Trends Children whose fathers have offspring with multiple partners experience increased behavioral problems and poorer physical health early in life,...
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Reducing Obesity: Policy Strategies from the Tobacco Wars
Urban Institute The first challenge for the 100-plus people who flowed into Urban Institute’s Washington offices last week to talk about...
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Science in After-School Market Research Study
Coalition for Science After School (CSAS) More than 50 years after the launch of Sputnik initiated a broad campaign to increase...
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Connected by 25: Financing Housing SupportsConnected by 25: Financing Policies and Practices That Support Permanency
The Finance Project Initiatives designed to improve the lives of youths aging out of foster care could be funded by tapping...
