All posts tagged "Congress/Federal Policy"

Proposed Food Stamp Cuts Put Most Vulnerable At Risk

  Markita Barrett, 35, using her WIC vouchers, places two gallon jugs of milk into her cart as she shops for juice...

Proposed Update to Federal Law Could Help Catch Online Child Sex Traffickers

The International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children and the National Association of Attorney Generals urged Congress in July to make changes...

Summit Rallies Young People to Become Juvenile Justice Advocates

During a session on disproportionate minority contact, youth audience members participate in a mock justice system processing activity facilitated by Tshaka Barrows...

House Bill Would Cut After School Program Funding, Create Block Grant

Late last week, the House of Representatives passed the Student Success Act (H.R. 5), a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education...

Effects of State Medical Marijuana Laws on Adolescent Marijuana Use

Higher Interest Rates Leave Some Students Uneasy about Taking on More College Debt

Americans owe nearly a trillion dollars in outstanding student loans, according to a 2012 announcement from the Federal Reserve Bank of New...

The Annie E. Casey Foundation: 2013 KIDS COUNT Data Book

New USDA Rules Keep Candy from School Vending Machines

Beginning next year, fruits and other healthy foods will replace candy bars and cans of soda in school vending machines thanks to...

The Comeback States – Reducing Youth Incarceration in the United States

Child Trafficking Amendment to Senate’s Immigration Bill Approved

A recent amendment to the Senate immigration reform package would require U.S. Customs and Border Patrol stations to employ child welfare specialists...

On Memorial Day, One Nameless Organization Rallies for Gun Control

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The streets of downtown Washington, D.C. were busy with tourists and parade-goers on a day when the nation remembers...

Advocates See Impacts from Sequester, Brace for More

In the lead-up to federal budget sequestration, advocates warned of dire consequences for services to children and youth. Now, with sequestration in...

President’s Budget Proposes Spending on Youth Programs, Services

President Barack Obama introduced his 2014 budget proposal on Wednesday, highlighting new efforts to increase funding for education and juvenile justice. Although...

Do School Districts Matter?

Promoting the Well-Being of Children Whose Parents Are Gay or Lesbian

National Chief for Job Corps Resigned Last November

The country’s largest job training program for low-income youth has been without a permanent leader since last November, a little-discussed development as...

Cash-Strapped Job Corps Faces Watchdog Scrutiny

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Call it déjà vu all over again. After years of troubling audits, Job Corps, the federal government’s largest vocational...

Background Checks, School Security Bills Advance in U.S. Senate

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bill expanding the use of background checks for gun sales was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday...

Latest Brain Research Supports Obama Early Childhood Plan

WASHINGTON – Sixteen years ago, then-first lady Hillary Clinton convened a White House conference on the latest research on brain development in...