By an overwhelming margin, American voters oppose cutting food stamp assistance (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) as a way to reduce government ...
Antonio Dominguez entered high school “disengaged and directionless,” as he puts it, but emerged as a community leader, and credits caring adults to ...
A video challenge calls on young people to share via a video entry how they would use social media to inform their communities about new tools on substance abuse ...
Show your support for the Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Act, legislation aimed at improving graduation rates among secondary school students ...
The YEF Institute has published a new report highlighting promising city efforts to improve the lives of children, youth and families in communities with ...
Sensitive, thoughtful media coverage can be a powerful tool for justice and understanding, a catalyst for policies that help prevent wrongs from being repeated. But ...
Higher education should be about creating opportunity — NOT getting crushed by lifelong debt. But too many hard-working students and their families have watched ...
About one in three American Indian students in Montana will drop out of high school, according to a recent study. It's a statistic that's higher than the ...
While the United States has seen graduation rates increase in recent years, national graduation data mask the fact that many of our students, especially low-income ...
In January, the federal government announced plans for an early care and education initiative that would increase access to high-quality pre-K for 4-year-olds by ...
Students are failing to learn the basic math and English skills and concepts needed for success in community colleges, according to the report from the National ...
The Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative has launched a new campaign to fix foster care in the U.S. by encouraging states to extend foster care to age 21, offer ...
The Birth Through Eight State Policy Framework is a tool, or roadmap, that anyone can use to guide policy in ways that will improve the health, learning, and economic ...
If more children from low-income families graduated from college, income inequality would fall and economic opportunity would increase. A major barrier to a college ...
The Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative has launched Success Beyond 18, a campaign help young people all around the country who are aging out of ...
Today the Campaign for Youth Justice (CFYJ), an advocacy organization dedicated to ending the practice of trying, sentencing, and incarcerating youth under 18 in the ...
