“American Academy of Pediatrics updates policy on gay youth”
June 27, 2013, KAALTV.com article about the American Academy of Pediatrics, which represents more than 60,000 doctors, updating their policy on gay youth.
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Ron Haskins
Ron Haskins is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He helped write the 1996 welfare reform law and wrote Work Over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law (Brookings Institution Press, 2006). He believes welfare reform has worked.
“Report: LGBT youth experience high rates of cyberbullying”
July 11, 2013, Progress Illinois article about a report which found that LGBT youth face higher levels of cyberbullying than straight youth.
“Out Online: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth on the Internet”
2013 report released by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) which found that youth face about three times more bullying and harassment online and twice as much bullying or harassment via text message compared to their non-LGBT peers.
Thomas J. Massaro
The Rev. Thomas J. Massaro was associate professor of moral theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass. He wrote Catholic Social Teaching and United States Welfare Reform (Liturgical Press, 1998). He also co-wrote the article “Compassion in Action: A Letter to President Bush on Social Policy” for the journal America (2001). Massaro became the Dean of Jesuit […]
“LGBT homeless youth documented in ‘Queers in Exile’ at the Leslie Lohman Museum”
July 16, 2013 The Huffington Post article about an exhibition at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York detailing the street stories of LGTBQ people since 1969.
John Fitzgerald
John Fitzgerald is a professor of economics at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, who researches family well-being and welfare.
David T. Ellwood
Ellwood is a professor of political economy and dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was an assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 1993-95 and co-chaired then-President Clinton’s Working Group on Welfare Reform, Family Support and Independence. With both academic expertise and policy […]
“Faith-based group starting alternative to Boy Scouts — will allow gay youth, adults”
July 9, 2009, NBCNews.com blog post about a faith-based group that was opposed to the Boy Scouts of America’s decision regarding gay members starting an alternative group to the Boy Scouts.