NLC President Ted Ellis, mayor, Bluffton, IN, said, “While today’s jobs numbers show an unemployment rate at its lowest level since January 2009, millions of people remain unemployed or underemployed in this country."
This guide developed by NLC's Institute for Youth, Education and Families identifies four key strategies for increasing the participation of youth ages 11-18 - those in middle and high school - in high-quality afterschool opportunities.
Joining cities and organizations from across the country, NLC has become the latest official partner in the 100,000 Homes Campaign. Launched in July 2010, the campaign is a national movement of over 150 communities working together to find permanent homes for 100,000 chronic and medically vulnerable homeless Americans, including 10,000 chronically homeless veterans, by July 2014.
In response to concerns raised by cities and NLC, Facebook has created a new escalation process that is intended to make it easier for cities to get information about a new requirement concerning city page names and about how to make the necessary switch.
Wes Moore, youth advocate, Army combat veteran, social entrepreneur, and host of Beyond Belief on the Oprah Winfrey Network, has joined the lineup of opening session speakers at NLC’s Congress of Cities and Exposition in Boston, November 28-December 1.
NLC’s Public Safety and Crime Prevention (PSCP) Steering Committee held its fall meeting on September 25-27 in Brea, CA, where members focused on issues including emergency medical services and the impact of mental health on public safety.
NLC President Ted Ellis, mayor, Bluffton, IN, has appointed a 15-member Nominating Committee that will be responsible for recommending a slate of Officers and Board members to lead NLC in 2013.
The executive directors of the Big Seven state and local associations today released draft “Pension Funding Policy Guidelines” for state and local governments.
NLC’s Institute for Youth, Education and Families has published a new municipal action guide that highlights potential strategies and promising city approaches for reducing the persistent disparities between black males and their peers in the areas of education, work and family.
In rural areas, rugged terrain and vast distances complicate the already challenging process of housing veterans. Understanding the need, identifying service gaps and overlaps, coordinating communication between various stakeholders, using technology as possible and recognizing the need to deliver services to veterans rather than exclusively working to bring veterans to services are tangible steps that can help ensure that all veterans in rural communities have safe, accessible and affordable places to call home.
