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Chopping Block: The Rise And Fall of Title XX

BY SUE BADEAU Title XX, the Social Services Block Grant, is one of the oldest block grant programs to...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

No CHIPs Off the Uninsured Kids Block

Several new reports on changes in public and private health insurance have put a frown on the faces of those striving to...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Joe Camel is Dead, His Spirit Lives

Joe Camel was put to rest 18 months ago, but Big Tobacco’s practice of targeting youth may be alive and well. Since...

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Reducing the Risk: Connections That Make a Difference in the Lives of Youth

Who has the most emotional stress? Older teens, rural youth, welfare recipients and Native American youth. Who is most at risk for...

Research

Girls and Weight Control: Let Them Eat Cake?

Eric Stice, Rebecca Cameron, Chris Hayward, C. Barr Taylor, Joel Killen Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, December 1999, Vol. 67, pgs...

Research

Does CPS Lead to Incarceration?

Melissa Johnson-Reid and Richard Barth Child Abuse and Neglect, April 2000, Vol. 24, no. 4, pgs. 505-520 Free from Dr. Jonson-Reid, 1...

News

Got Busted? On Drugs? In a Gang?

Getting arrested for violating the curfew here earns kids a police escort to court – a huge one, with a shiny wood...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Getting By on Crayon Money

Let me ask you something: Have you ever been ashamed of being on welfare? I know I have. I grew up knowing...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Top Weapon in Teen Smoking Is Teens

By Amy Bracken Less than a year after a bitter struggle with GOP lawmakers who threatened its very existence, Florida’s partly youth-driven...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Anti-Alcohol Campaign Targets Younger Youth

In response to evidence that Americans are beginning to drink at younger ages, anti-alcohol forces are shifting their prevention efforts to younger...

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Yearbook 2000: The State of America’s Children

There is one institution that we can depend on being there for our young people, says Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president...

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Gun Control in the United States: A Comparative Survey of State Firearm Laws

Eighteen U.S. states have no minimum age for possession of rifles and shotguns, says a new report by the Open Society Institute...

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Adolescents in Public Health Insurance Programs: Medicaid and CHIP

Of the 3.7 million American adolescents, ages 13 through 18, who are uninsured, more than 2.3 million are eligible for – but...

Research

Guns at Home

Mark Schuster, M..D., Ph.D., Todd Franke, Ph.D., Amy Bastian, MPH, et al. American Journal of Public Health April 2000, Vol. 90, No....

Guest Opinion Essay

Demonizing Youth Isn’t ‘Advocacy’

America’s major institutions, succumbing to cold, Reagan/Clinton-era politics, have profoundly let young people down. A recent avalanche of cloned reports by interest...

Guest Opinion Essay