The rate of youth in Vermont between the ages of 16 and 24-years-old who are neither in school nor working jumped 50 percent between 2000 and 2011.

7.5% of Vermont’s children received Reach Up (TANF) benefits in 2011; a 27% increase from 2007.

Teen mothers often have fewer resources than older parents to provide for a healthy baby and for themselves.

Voices for Vermont’s Children is on the ground in Winooski and Burlington.

The 2012 KIDS COUNT Data Book, a state-by-state study on the well-being of America’s children, ranks Vermont as third in the nation for overall child well-being.

Here’s what happened in the 2012 Legislative Session.

Help feed your neighbors by signing on and sharing the Farm Bill Nutrition Title Common Recommendations from Vermont.

The Affordable Care Act (the new health care law) has already helped millions of people.

This Data Snapshot highlights newly available national, state, and city data in the KIDS COUNT Data Center that shows a 25 percent increase in the number of children residing in areas of concentrated poverty since 2000.

Millions of hardworking Americans will be cut off from the emergency lifeline of federal unemployment insurance, unless Congress acts to fully renew the program before it expires at the end of February.

Voices is working in coalition with Hunger Free Vermont to craft common recommendations that seek to protect and improve the farm bill nutrition programs.

The Burlington and Winooski school districts have won a three-year grant of about $3.5 million designed to help customize the high school experience and allow more young people to succeed in college or the workplace.

The long awaited report on Vermont’s Education Financing system, the so-called Picus Report, was published in its final form on January 18th and the two main authors, Lawrence Picus and Allan Odden, made a tour of various legislative committees the week before, in preparation for its release.  In general, the report is very positive.

Millions of hardworking Americans—nearly 2 million in January alone, and over 6 million in 2012—will be cut off from the emergency lifeline of federal unemployment insurance, unless Congress acts to renew the program before it expires December 31st.