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Yearbook 2000: The State of America’s Children
There is one institution that we can depend on being there for our young people, says Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president...
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Safe & Smart: Research and Guidelines for Children’s Use of the Internet
With financial support from Microsoft Corporation and Children’s Television Workshop (creators of “Sesame Street”), and with guidance from the latter, the National...
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Gun Control in the United States: A Comparative Survey of State Firearm Laws
Eighteen U.S. states have no minimum age for possession of rifles and shotguns, says a new report by the Open Society Institute...
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Protection as Prevention: Contraception for Sexually Active Teens
This report bears relatively good tidings about U.S. teen pregnancy: Teen sexual activity, pregnancy and birth rates have all declined since 1990....
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Adolescents in Public Health Insurance Programs: Medicaid and CHIP
Of the 3.7 million American adolescents, ages 13 through 18, who are uninsured, more than 2.3 million are eligible for – but...
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National Job Corps Study: The Short-Term Impacts of Job Corps on Participants’ Employment and Related Outcomes
Job Corps graduates earn higher wages and are less likely to have run-ins with the criminal justice system than eligible nonparticipants, according...
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A Piece of the Puzzle: How States Can Use Education to Make Work Pay for Welfare Recipients
As little as one semester of full-time training can result in a salary increase of as much as $10,000 for a former...
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State Programs Can Reduce Tobacco Use
In 1997 the National Cancer Policy Board, a joint program of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council (which is...
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The Value of Investing in Youth in the Washington Metropolitan Region
Prepared for the Morino Institute by the Brookings Institution Center on Urban & Metropolitan Policy When President Clinton took a tour of...
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Community Counts: How Youth Organizations Matter for Youth Development
This report is based on a study spanning 12 years, of 12-to-18-year-olds in urban and rural communities across the country, aimed at...
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Separate and Unequal: A report on educational barriers for homeless children and youth
Homeless children and youth are often denied their right to attend public schools, according to this report funded by the W.K. Kellogg...
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Youth and Board Service: Experiences of Participation in Organizational Governance
The inclusion of youth on the boards of directors of youth-serving organizations benefits the youth clients, the youth board participants and the...
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Dangerous Liaisons: Substance Abuse and Sex
National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) Teens who drink are seven times more likely to have sexual...
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To Establish Justice, To Insure Domestic Tranquility
The Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation Violence, fear of crime, the proliferation of firearms and racism in the criminal justice system have all...
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Millennium Hangover: Keeping Score on Alcohol Drug Strategies
This report on the impact of alcohol abuse examines drinking from several perspectives, including public health, criminal justice, the workplace, treatment and...
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The Right Start: Conditions of Babies and Their Families in America’s Largest Cities
Annie E. Casey Foundation Babies born in the nation’s 50 largest cities are likely to start life at a significant disadvantage compared...
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Reporting Crimes Against Juveniles
U.S. Justice Department, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Violent crimes against juveniles are less likely to be reported to...
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Teenage Sex Rate Does Not Increase With Condom Use
By Jennifer Gauck A new study published in the American Journal of Public Health contends that distributing condoms in school does not increase rates...
