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Young Adults Giving Advice to the White House
SparkAction, an online journalism and advocacy center by and for the child and youth field, is sponsoring the SparkOpportunity Challenge. The SparkOpportunity Challenge is another “crowd-sourcing” contest, this one designed to support the White House Council for Community Solutions’ work to engage youth and develop leadership opportunities for disconnected youth. The challenge offers young people [...]
How Millenials Can Influence the Presidential Election
It is no secret that the November election will be a tough fight to win the White House. Both campaigns are courting a very important demographic to help secure the victory—Millennials. Millennials were born between 1977 and 1994 and at 70 million strong; they make up about 20% of the US population. They are the [...]
5 Reasons Why It is Important for Women of Color to Breastfeed
Last weeks’ Time magazine cover featuring a white woman breastfeeding her 3-year old child has created quite a media frenzy. Folks are up in arms about whether she should be nursing a ‘big boy’ and nearly rabid over the attachment parenting method that is driving her decision to breastfeed. I don’t care to debate the [...]
House Republican Cuts for Children and Youth – By the Numbers
Sisters, Take a look at the numbers in the chart below and tell me what you think. Would a compassionate America do this to vulnerable children, youth and their families? Take a few moments and review the chart and if you share my outrage that it makes sense to make these cuts to programs that serve [...]
The REAL Hunger Games – Tell Congress to Protect Nutrition Assistance!
From Half in Ten – The Campaign to Cut Poverty by Half in 10 Years “This week the House is voting on $36 billion in cuts to nutrition assistance, or SNAP, which would kick 2 million people off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly food stamps), reduce benefits for 44 million more, and drop 280,000 low-income [...]
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