This is good news, because research indicates that these activities can be an important protective factor for young people growing up in difficult circumstances. The Urban Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan policy research organization established in Washington, D.C. in 1968. Its objectives are to sharpen thinking about society's problems and efforts to solve them, improve government decisions and their implementation, and increase citizen awareness about important public choices. Assessing the New Federalism is a multi-year Urban Institute project designed to analyze the devolution of responsibility for social programs from the federal government to the states. The project analyzes changes in income support, social services, and health programs.
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