All posts tagged "Congress/Federal Policy"

The Comeback and Coming-from-Behind States: An Update on Youth Incarceration in the United States

With Hunger and Homelessness Still on the Rise, SNAP Cuts Pose Hardship

From a new report by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Although unemployment rates dropped in 2013, it was still the No. 1...

After Newtown, School Districts Across Nation Ask What it Takes to Make Kids Safe

  After the shooting at Newtown, Conn. last year, Superintendent Matt Dossey launched a program to arm a select group of staff...

Sandy Hook One Year on, the Nation Struggles With the Stigma of Mental Illness

Photo by Robert Stolarik. NEWTOWN, Conn. — Sandy Hook Elementary School has been razed. The process of destroying the school — where...

Since Sandy Hook, Tracking Mental Health Changes Nationwide

NEWTOWN, Conn., — Nearly one year after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the town has struggled to reclaim its identity...

National Standards for the Care of Youth Charged with Status Offenses

Youth Civic Development & Education

The Nation’s Report Card: U.S. States in a Global Context

Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?

Parity Law Means More Treatment for Youths’ Mental Illness, Substance Abuse

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius talks about the Affordable Care Act at theSouthside Medical Center in Atlanta on Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. She was in...

Sports-Related Concussions in Youth: Improving the Science, Changing the Culture

Youth Organizations Educate Public About Affordable Care Act

ATLANTA — People trickled into the multipurpose room at Atlanta’s East Lake YMCA on a Wednesday night, some with children in tow....

A New Majority: Low Income Students in the South and Nation

Local Programs Supplement the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

    Megan Owens and friends. Photo by Ashley Lauer. It’s unclear how many families are living with their children in the extended-stay...

All Together Now: Collaboration and Innovation for Youth Engagement

LGBT Communities and the Affordable Care Act

Storyteller Network Gives Faces, Voices to Poverty

                  Screenshot of Barbara of Lancaster, Pa., sharing her experience with SNAP in a video On...

Advocates Fret About Effects of Government Shutdown

WASHINGTON – Most youth programs could continue operating through the short-term, but an extended government shutdown could have a much greater impact,...

Federal Outlays for Children Plummet from FY ’11 to FY ’12

WASHINGTON – Federal outlays for children declined $28 billion, or about 7 percent, from fiscal year 2011 to fiscal 2012, the biggest...

Taking Food from the Mouths of Children

A coincidence of timing last week highlighted the contrast between the needs of hungry families in America and the political will in...