Youth Today
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► Reports
Covering Kids & Families Evaluation: 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 presumptive...
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Workforce Investment Act Needs Updating, Agency Says
Jobs for the Future (JFF) There’s no shortage of ideas on how to retool the Workforce Investment Act in order to make...
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News
Young Voters Push Participation in 2008 to 49 percent
Young voters – specifically blacks and Hispanics – were the only demographic group to show a significantly higher voting percentage in...
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House Appropriations Committee Passes CNCS Budget
The House Appropriations Committee on Friday fought back an effort to withhold all money for AmeriCorps programs pending an investigation into the...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Measuring Nonprofit Sustainability
Is there a tool to measure nonprofit sustainability during times of economic distress? A new report by New York-based consultancy TCC Group,...
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October is Apparently National Good JJ Conference Month
The Weekly Notes grew absurdly long yesterday, so we’re mentioning these separately today. There are two conferences coming up this fall that...
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Weekly Notes: Texas bans LWOP; White House Boys; Public Welfare Foundation Grants; Why Ban-The-Box Helps Juvies
JJ Today has returned from a much-needed vacation out to Northern California. Despite trying to stay work-free, I managed to chew the...
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News
Obama’s Community College Proposal – Where Does Youth Work Fit?
President Barack Obama’s $12 billion proposal to boost community colleges would bring new opportunities – and demands – to the youth field....
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
GAO: Recovery Act Shoring Up Distressed States
States generally are using federal Recovery Act funds “to stabilize budgets and cope with fiscal distress,” according to a new update on...
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NASFAA Head Faces Felony Charges
The president of the Washington, D.C.-based National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators was charged this week in San Francisco with...
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College Dreams Deferred
Despite increased efforts to make college more affordable and accessible, a new survey shows that a growing number of low-income high...
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New York-based Family Justice to Close in Fall
Family Justice, a New York-based agency that was a pioneer in the method of helping the entire family of a child...
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College Dreams Deferred
Despite increased efforts to make college more affordable and accessible, a new survey shows that a growing number of low-income high school...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Report: Nonprofits Financially Stressed
File this one in the “tell-me-about-it” folder: A late-June survey of nonprofits by the Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins...
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A Novel Approach on Litigating DMC
For 20 years, few juvenile justice systems have done little more than study the problem of disproportionate minority contact (DMC) in the...
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Litigating DMC Part Two: How It Came Together
Our previous post covered a new strategy on how to compel juvenile justice systems to address DMC rather than just study it...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Convicted NFL Star Michael Vick Helps at Virginia B&G Club
For former NFL Pro Bowl quarterback and convicted dogfighting bankroller Michael Vick, the path to youth work employment is proving easier than...
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Illinois Is Down; Is Baltimore Up?
Child welfare in Illinois was in rough shape when the ACLU of Illinois filed a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Children...
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News
Senators Seek Hearing on Firing of CNCS Inspector General
Two influential Republican senators have asked for a hearing on the firing of Gerald Walpin as inspector general for the Corporation for...
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Obama Spotlights Community Nonprofits
President Barack Obama made it clear today that he is counting on nonprofit organizations to advance education, training and health care in...
