A study initiated by the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative to
explore public knowledge of and perceptions about the challenges facing
young people leaving ...
Being poor and being a minority both increase the chances that
children will end up in jail during their lifetime. Foster care also
puts children at greater risk of ...
The Children's Leadership Council, a collaboration of over 50 organizations advocating for children, released this statement in July about the deficit negotiations.
On the eve of the 15th anniversary of federal welfare reform, MDRC President Gordon Berlin describes the implications of the Great Recession and its effects on the ...
On the eve of the 15th anniversary of federal welfare reform, MDRC President Gordon Berlin describes the implications of the Great Recession and its effects on the ...
A congressional hearing on prevention of child death due to neglect and abuse coincided with the release of a report by the Government Accountability
Office which, ...
The nonpartisan Every Child Matters Education Fund released a poll of Iowan voters on July 13th, 2011 about voting in the 2012 election.Check out the poll ...
This
factsheet is designed to help prospective adoptive parents understand
and anticipate the financial costs associated with different kinds of
adoption.
A CBS News producer, who used our resources a few years ago to do a story about involving foster children in court decisions about their own care, said her interest ...
Under the guise of fiscal discipline, House and Senate Republicans are
proposing a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. On June
15, the House ...
Polls and our values tell us that no one wants to "balance the budget on the backs of children." So why is it so hard to get policymakers to invest in children's ...
How were the British, public and legislative alike, able to champion the child poverty problem in a troubled economy? It's an accomplishment that seems almost magical ...
Nicholas
Zill writes that government agencies could look to child welfare programs as an
area where significant savings could be achieved. Increasing the number ...
June 7, 2011 was the tenth anniversary of the passage of tax
cuts that continue to give wealthy America
a windfall while contributing to increased inequality and debt ...
Diana Rugh Johnson, an attorney and child
welfare law specialist in Atlanta, Georgia, has represented parents accused of
child abuse because of a hospital ...
Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers who focus on
children’s programs wonder why voters who say they care about the next
generation can be so reluctant ...
We have another outrageous tale of zero tolerance gone wild, this time in a Maryland high school. For many students, being banned from school means more than missing ...
The National
Center for Youth Law
reports that the Washington Supreme Court recently declined to rule on whether
a foster child has the right to counsel in parental ...
The Children's Leadership Council wrote a letter to Hon. John Spratt and Hon. Paul Ryan regarding the budget proposal for FY2011 regarding programs for Children and ...
