Faced with persistent recession-generated shortfalls, many governors are proposing spending cuts that cut per-pupil spending and health services for vulnerable ...
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Director Bob Greenstein says a careless rush to stabilize our debt could slow economic recovery and lose jobs. He argues ...
Kaiser Health News evaluates the circulating opinions regarding healthcare reform as the public remains divided. While understanding the policies and technicalities ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the number of uninsured Americans rose to 50 million as of this year. However, government programs since ...
According to Nicholas Kristof, the solution to educational mediocrity is to simply raise teacher's salaries. "A basic educational challenge is not that teachers ...
Target is backing multiple awards of $2,000 each that work to enhance classroom curricula by bringing music, dance, drama and visual arts programs into the classroom ...
Better World Books is supporting compelling literacy projects that address the literacy needs of underserved populations. These multiple grants will be eligible for ...
An important new initiative from Half in Ten, a national campaign to
reduce poverty by 50 percent over the next ten years, and the Coalition
on Human Needs, is ...
Funding provided by Target supports programs such as after-school reading events and weekend book clubs that foster a love of reading and encourage children to read ...
The US Department of Justice is funding four awards of up to $300,000 each that support select law enforcement agencies in the development of strategies to protect ...
SparkAction caught up with participants at the 2011 National Youth Summit, asking why they were there, their personal highlights from the day, and what they hope to ...
Education and early childhood program funding remains the same under the new continuing resolution as under the previous one, reports the New America Foundation.
U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), a federation of state PIRGs, says affordable
higher education and keeping Pell Grants solvent are key to economic recovery.
Mayors are trying to save community development block grants that serve urban areas and create city jobs. Find out what you can do to help save these grants that ...
Budget-strapped Illinois
is cutting all state substance abuse funding for teens and adults. Is this a case of savings at too high a cost? Eddy Ameen, who counsels ...
CBPP
reports that the worst recession since the 1930’s means that states will
continue to face budget shortfalls in the coming fiscal year.
These short-term ...
Tough times don't need to be the end of effective interventions. Despite
budget setbacks that were too much for many local programs, one community in California ...
