In this op-ed, an advocate says a multibillion-dollar federal initiative is needed to bring disconnected youth back into the mainstream—not just for their sake, but for ours, too.
The good news is that juvenile justice reform is underway in New York. The bad news, argues this op-ed, is that reform won’t work unless we recognize the true causes…
In January and February the national unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent— lower than in late 2009. That was seen as a sign that the economy was rounding the…