Youth Today
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Guns Are Back
“I refuse to leave any child behind in America,” says President George W. Bush. Here are four: Randy Ruiz, 17, and Brian...
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Bush Plan Stirs Excitement, Anxiety
Amid all the rhetoric about separation of church and state, one of the most crucial battles brewing over President George Bush’s faith-based...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Ex-Convicts Connect With Kids
Position wanted: Working with kids. Education: High school dropout. Honors: Top drug salesman for street gang. Convicted of drug trafficking and weapons...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
From Serving Time to Serving Youth Ex-Cons Turned Youth Workers
John Artis, youth counselor, Norfolk Juvenile Detention Center, Virginia – Convicted with boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter in the 1966 slaying of three...
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Opinion
Have Faith, but Deliver Results
President Bush is right to make after-school programming for American teens a high priority in these early days of his administration. It...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
My Secret Love
BY ANONYMOUS, 17 I was born and raised in the Bronx, where I learned to walk and talk tough and spit with...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Streisand: My Kind of People
BY SHAVONE HARRIS, 17 Even though she’s a living legend, I first discovered Barbra Streisand about six years ago. I was home...
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Fatherhood Impact
BY SUE BADEAU The Congressional Fatherhood Task Force may be responsible for one of the few youth-related pieces of legislation to survive...
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Missing Kids, Lost Caucus
One of the more active youth-related caucuses is the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus. A bipartisan group listing nearly 150 members on...
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Why a caucus?
Caucuses are essentially an adjunct to the formal party and rigid committee structure within Congress, and their rapid growth from the 1980s...
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Impact
BY SUE BADEAU While caucuses have no recognition in official congressional rules, no line-item budget and no official staff, they are often...
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Opinion
Leave No Child (or Family) Behind
Advocates for broader supports for children, youth and families have a common focal point: President George Bush’s tax cut proposal. Hailed by...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Does Welfare Reform Hurt Teens?
While researchers unveiled more evidence last month that welfare reform helps poor parents and children in many ways, a dark cloud stands...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
STDs Discriminate
New findings dramatically demonstrate how the spread of sexually transmitted diseases differs by age, gender, race and geography. The U.S. Centers for...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Briefly…
Record-Setting Child Support – Before leaving town in January, outgoing U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala announced that...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Juvenile Crime Law Gutted
A California appeals court took the heart out of the Proposition 21 laws passed less than a year ago, striking down the...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Sex Charges Prompt Youth Group Changes
An Orthodox Judaism panel investigating teenage sex abuse allegations against a 50-year-old New Jersey rabbi and veteran youth worker blamed “profound errors...
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Answered Prayers
Advocates of national service were thrilled when Bill Clinton made the expansion of federal support for community service opportunities a centerpiece of...
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Bad Form on Welfare Reform
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you – and flies you, and puts you up in a nice hotel. When members...
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Foundation Fluctuations
The Denver-based Gill Foundation (assets $240 million) has announced the impending departure of executive director Katherine Pease. Founded in 1994 by Quark...
