This question pops up everywhere, underlying concerns about “failure to launch” and “boomerang kids.” A cover of The New Yorker last spring picked up on the zeitgeist: a young man hangs up his new Ph.D. in his boyhood bedroom, the cardboard box at his feet signaling his plans to move back home now that he’s officially overqualified for a job.

On Thursday, August 19, 2010, California’s bill--Senate Bill 399--will be voted on in the state Assembly.  SB 399 allows for a review of life without parole sentences given to youth, so that young people may have an opportunity for resentencing.

In this year's report, Highlights Magazine followed up on some of the things kids shared with us last year. Read about how kid's view the future -- their own and our world's.

This briefing looks into the key challenges facing states, including working within state legislative cycles against tight deadlines in the federal law, creating new roles at the state level as state budgets are being squeezed, and others.