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LGBTQ discrimination is driving hundreds of thousands of kids into homelessness
Tricia Raikes writes about Chapin Hall’s new study for Salon, outlining ways to address the challenges faced by LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness and to prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place.

A fair and accurate census is critical to the future of our youth
Next week officials from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Commerce will testify before Congress and attempt to justify adding the question of citizenship back into the census for the first time since the 1950s. Lawmakers shouldn’t fall for it.

Black kids are disproportionately disciplined in American public schools
A new Department of Education Civil Rights chronicles racial disparities in the public-school system, revealing the disproportionate number of students of color impacted by school discipline.

UNCF releases report on black youth’s perception of college
A new report from UNCF finds that while 66 percent of black youth feel success in school is there top priority, they are hugely concerned about how to pay for college.