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More Caring, Less Fear
By Robert K. Ross, M.D., President and CEO of The California Endowment, and Tonya Allen, President and CEO of the Skillman Foundation, who are co-chairs of the Executives’ Alliance to Expand Opportunities for Boys and Men of Color — a growing network of nearly 40 national, regional…
Author: Huffington Post
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High Suspension and Expulsion Rates Driven by Ineffective School Policies and Practices, Not "Bad Kids"
Research Collaborative Identifies Promising Initiatives to Address Discipline Gaps by Race, Gender, Disability and Sexual Orientation > Download the Briefing Papers A group of 26 nationally recognized experts from the social science, education and legal fields – assembled three years ago with the backing of…
Author: The Discipline Disparities Collaborative
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How ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ Initiative Just Might Save Black Boys
Photo: Thinkstock/The Root By Tanya E. Coke By linking education and criminal justice, the initiative could finally address the key problems that are holding back young men. On Thursday, President Obama launched My Brother’s Keeper, a joint initiative of government, philanthropy and business leaders to improve…
Author: The Root
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Supporting Initiatives By and For Women Is Critical To Achieving Social Justice
In their new book, “Half the Sky,” Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn assert that there can be no social or economic justice, or human rights progress around the world, that does not have women and girls at its core. It’s a…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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New Study Finds Nearly One-Half of Children in Immigrant Families Live in Poverty
Child Trends is an Atlantic grantee. Washington, DC- Nearly one-half (47.9 percent) of children in immigrant families live in poverty when basic living and child care costs are taken into account, according to a new research brief from Child Trends and the Center for Social…
Author: Child Trends
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The Impact of Medicaid and SCHIP on Low-Income Children's Health
Full Report This brief was prepared by Caryn Marks, Cathy Hoffman and Julia Paradise of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. THE IMPACT OF MEDICAID AND SCHIP ON LOW-INCOME CHILDREN’S HEALTH Today, one-quarter of children in the U.S.…
Author: Kaiser Commission for Medicaid and the Uninsured
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Executions near for 12 on Texas death row
by MICHAEL GRACZYK The crowd on A-Wing A-Section at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit is about to get thinned. A dozen condemned inmates in the so-called “death watch” cells on Texas death row are set for lethal injection over the next six…
Author: The Associated Press State & Local Wire
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Senators push for immigration raid guidelines
by SAMANTHA HENRY With federal authorities stepping up immigration enforcement raids across the country, Sens. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Robert Menendez of New Jersey are sponsoring a bill to protect the rights of U.S. citizens and legal residents who get caught up in them.…
Author: Associated Press Online
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Suicide on the Brink of Release; Families, Attorneys Push to Hold Guantanamo Officials Liable
by Josh White When Mani al-Utaybi fixed a makeshift noose around his neck and hanged himself in a Guantanamo Bay cell in June 2006, the Saudi Arabian detainee had been close to being transferred to his homeland and freed, his attorney and military officials said.…
Author: The Washington Post
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Hundreds of Workers Held in Immigration Raid
by ADAM NOSSITER LAUREL, Miss. – In another large-scale workplace immigration crackdown, federal officials raided a factory here on Monday, detaining at least 350 workers they said were in the country illegally. Numerous agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement descended on a factory belonging to…
Author: The New York Times