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How is the Stimulus Working Out?
President Obama announced Wednesday that the stimulus is now providing $2.4 billion in taxpayer grants to create electric cars and tens of thousands of...
Stimulus Money Helps Revive Summer Youth Jobs Programs
School’s out and young job seekers across the country have less than a 30 percent chance of finding work. For disadvantaged youth and high...
Soccer Offers Hope for Homeless (Video)
A homeless soccer league in New York gets teens and adults off the streets and provides hope for a better life. ...
A Hopeful and Tolerant New Generation
Two years of research on the attitudes, values and behavior of Canada's teens uncovered hopeful trends:
For instance, today's teens have more "close friends" than...
Encourage Gratitude in Your Young
An important but seldom-taught lesson is the value of gratitude. In a culture like ours, where the norm is always to want more,...
Odd Science Projects Get $100K From Bill Gates
Can tomatoes be taught to make antiviral drugs for people who eat them? Would zapping your skin with a laser make your...
Wisconsin Family Inspires the President, Gets a Note Back
Three Weeks ago I suggested to my husband that he write a personal letter to the President of the United States. He (Mike) looked...
Green Corps Funnels Stimulus Money to Train Poor Youth in Solar Tech
$10 million dollars of California's stimulus money will fund the Green Corps, a new program that will provide training for underprivileged youth to learn...
10 Most Inspiring Stories for 2008
These are some of top good news stories from last year that really tugged at the heartstrings. They were also ten of the most...
Author Helps Build Recreation Center for City
A Microsoft software developer is donating 20 percent of the profits from his debut novel, “Revolution,” toward a community recreation center at...
Ten Extraordinary Americans Recognized for Innovation in Health Care
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced the 2008 recipients of its Community Health Leaders Award for individuals who overcome the odds to improve...
Standing Up Against Mockery in the Public Discourse
We are a society that has come to consider mockery an acceptable form of public discourse. Whether it's on a late-night comedy show,...
DC Mural Project Covers up Graffiti
A city-funded project to cover graffiti launched this weekend in DC as six teenagers began creating images of "a trumpet player, a girl playing...
7 Positive Trends to Relieve Your Worries and Calm Your Fears
Good News Network founder in 1997 Women's World photo Given so much bad press about teens beating each other...
Survey Results Are In! …70% of Readers are Ready to Move
I'm so excited! Whether it's about the new forums opening next week, or the free gifts I'm handing out on Mother's Day, or the...
Top Ten Good News Stories of 2007!
Looking back and choosing the top good news stories of the year was a happy exercise and I've concluded that 2007 was a good...
Trying New Approaches on Teen Offenders
States facing packed prisons are looking to treatment-oriented solutions like Missouri's, "where teen offenders are viewed not just as inmates but as works in...
Childhood Cancer Death Rate Down
Cancer deaths among kids and teens in the U.S. have become rarer, decreasing by 1.7% per year from 1990 to 2004, thanks to advances...
American Youths Bridge Religious Divides
"Teens in a Boston suburb lead the way in building relationships among religious faiths in their community through Interfaith Action, a program that has...
States Trying to Extend Foster Care Benefits
In most states, youths in foster care are on their own when they turn 18. Federal funding for their care is cut off when...