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State of the Air 2001

American Lung Association This report gives a failing grade in air quality to communities that are home to 30 million children...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Child Care Staff: Salaries, Stability, and Kids’ Behavior

Aggressive behavior of children in child care made front page headlines last month, but an equally important – and possibly related –...

Research

TV Wrestling and Dating Don’t Mix

There are plenty of studies showing a link between violent TV and children’s aggressive behavior, but a new study makes the unusual...

News

Second Chance Homes Find A White House Friend – Again

First, the scourge was smallpox: In 1729, it brought women and their children to the nation’s first orphanage and...

News

When Mom or Dad is Locked Up

By Amy Bracken Jessup, Md.—Lowell Gibson lives 15 miles from her nine-year-old son but hasn’t seen him in three years. When...

Opinion

A Taxing Summer Ahead?

Congress is debating domestic taxation and spending priorities for next year and beyond. The debate has narrowed to two choices: Cut taxes...

News

For Youth Offenders, It’s Payback Time

Lincoln, Nebraska Marilyn Perez sometimes struggles to sleep in her own bed, ever since that terrorizing night last year when a...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

I’ve Been an Adult Too Long

By Marlene Peralta, 18 Last year when I finished high school, I wanted to go away to college. I thought it would...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

I Don’t Wanna Grow Up

By Susanna Vagman, 16 My freshman year of high school, I was waiting in the nurse’s office (because I had fainted in...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Bush Budget: Faith, Flexibility, And Families with Fathers

By Sue Badeau President George Bush last month unveiled the details of his administration’s first budget. Cabinet members held press conferences in...

Opinion

Lost Time for Learning

I have written this op-ed in different forms and in different places since 1979. It is spring, and that can only mean...

News

Myth of Plenty Lures Mexican Youth to U.S.

Tziritzicuaro, Mexico—Whenever she gets a chance, Principal Zoraida Vargas Serv’n encourages her students at the Gabriela Mistral Telesecundaria to stay in Mexico....

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

News Distorts Youth, Reports Say

Newspapers and radio and television stations vastly over-report crimes committed by people under 21, distorting the public’s image of youth and helping...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Big Vans: Watch Out for Rollovers

Organizations that jam kids into 15-passenger vans (often called “church vans”) to get them to and from activities had better take it...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Briefly …

Foundation Giving Is Bullish – The New York-based Foundation Center’s annual report revealed that giving from the nation’s 50,000 grant-making foundations increased...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Pangs of Faith

The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (OFBCI), directed by John DiIulio, an Italian-American Catholic, could certainly use more than...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Taxing Days for Younger Americans Act

The top priority for new federal legislation for youth service agencies in the 107th Congress is the Younger Americans Act (YAA). The...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Foundation Events

Stepping down after 10 years as managing director of the San Francisco-based Roberts Enterprise Development Fund is Jed Emerson. The youth enterprise-promoting...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Preserved In Idaho

Rural preservationists take note: The National Family Preservation Network’s nine-year odyssey from the Hunter College School of Social Work to the Maryland...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier