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Soda Taxes, Soft Drink Consumption, and Children’s Body Mass Index

Small taxes on sugar-laden soft drinks have little impact on consumption or childhood obesity, although there may be more visible effects...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative

www.jimcaseyyouth.org The home page of the newly updated website of the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative highlights its vision with animated...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

House Gets Started on Juvenile Justice Reauthorization

Note: This story has been updated The House Committee on Education and Labor today held its first hearing on the reauthorization of...

Arkansas Judge Overturns Ban on Gay Adoptions

An Arkansas state judge last week overturned a voter referendum that banned unmarried couples from adopting. The law was widely seen as...

Reform Hits Snags in Nebraska

Anyone overhauling child welfare and juvenile justice systems might want to watch the bumpy implementation of reform in Nebraska. Two of the...

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Wagner to Resign as Head of National Network for Youth

The executive director of the National Network for Youth, which advocates for increased resources to aid homeless and runaway youth, will leave...

Washington Talks About … Homeless/Runaway Youth How Many? Where’s the Money?

Washington, D.C. – It happens every Sunday morning all across America: Parents awaken to find that their normally responsible teenager never came...

Nev., Mass., Sued over Child Welfare Troubles

The National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the child welfare systems for state of Nevada and for...

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Learning from Molesters: What the Scout Scandal Teaches Us

Should the Boy Scouts say sorry? Should the pope resign? Those are among the questions that people have been asking in recent...

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Jury Deems Boy Scouts Negligent in Handling Sex Abuse

In a case that could have significant implications for one of the country’s most venerated youth-serving organizations, a Portland, Ore., jury today...

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Administration May Forgo Political Hires at FYSB, Children’s Bureau

The Obama administration may not appoint new heads for the bureaus that oversee child welfare and homeless youth at the Administration for...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

College Diplomas, Income Elude Foster Care Alums

A study being released today of youths who aged out of foster care in three Midwestern states paints a grim picture of...

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Teen Birth Rate Drops

Births to U.S. teenagers dropped two percent in 2008, reversing two years of teen birth increases that had interrupted a 14-year decline,...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Certain Home Visitation Models Will Expand Under Health Reform

The health care reform law signed by President Barack Obama last month will significantly increase federal resources for programs that assist poor,...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

New Fed Rules Restrict Tobacco Marketing to Youth

New restrictions meant to make cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products less appealing and less accessible to youths take effect June 22. Although...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

SCHIP Dropped in AZ

Arizona became the first state to drop its state children’s health insurance program (SCHIP) when Gov. Jan Brewer (R) signed the 2011...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Health Law Gives Abstinence-only Proponents New Life

The health care reform law that President Barack Obama signed into law March 23 to help Americans get access to health insurance...

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The Nation’s Children 2010: A Factsheet of America’s Most Vulnerable Children

Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) CWLA’s 2010 National Fact Sheet provides snapshots of the nation’s “most vulnerable” children, reflecting hardships...

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The Social Security Administration’s Youth Transition Demonstration Projects: Implementation Lessons from the Original Projects

Mathematica Policy Research Inc. This report presents the findings of the Social Security Administration’s implementation of seven original Youth Transition Demonstration...

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