THE WHITE HOUSE: Information finding juvenile vi violent crime highest during afterschool hours.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-20 September 1999-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Vice President -- Vice President Al Gore announces new information finding juvenile violent crime and victimization highest during afterschool hours (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:170999 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Vice President Al Gore today announced new findings that offer insight into the problem of juvenile violent crime.

According to a new Justice Department report, young people are at the greatest risk to be victimized by violence during the after school hours of 3-7 p.m., suggesting more must be done to help working families balance the competing demands of work and family by providing after school programming. "With more and more working families struggling to raise children in homes...