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Egypt: Young Got It Done!
It’s difficult not to be moved by the events that transpired in Egypt over the past three weeks. In just 18 days, protesters managed to topple a leader who had been entrenched for 30 years. As the New York Times points out, most of the protesters were born when Hosni Mubarak was coming to power. They have never known anything else. Yet these young people, many of them educated at top universities, staged a largely non-violent revolution that brought down a dictator and could serve as an inspiration to the rest of the Middle East. [t]hey brought a sophistication and professionalism to their cause — exploiting the anonymity of the Internet to elude the secret police, planting false rumors to … More >>
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Young Gets It Done: Egyptian Youth
Under our Young Gets It Done (YGID) banner here on the blog, we’ve posted about amazing feats accomplished by young people the world over. They’ve ranged from providing free, basic education using short YouTube videos to the boy who harnessed the wind to challenging the deterioration of civic education in America. During the Iranian protests of 2009, we changed the overall color scheme of our site to show solidarity with the opposition movement which drew much of its strength and numbers from young people. It comes as no surprise that the brainchildren behind the recent Egyptian events are young people. Today’s cover story on the NY Times highlights the important and leading role Egyptian youth are playing in this remarkable … More >>
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Youth Rocked the Vote
To everyone who canvassed, phonebanked, pushed their friends and families out the door or otherwise put people at the polls; thank you. It’s your hard work that makes democracy happen. Regardless of any individual outcome, when young people are involved things are better. We’re in the middle of a struggle to prove that we’re interested, important and need to be considered. But we’re well on our way and nothing could make that clearer than fact that we actually voted yesterday. So, in an incredibly important point on the future of American electoral politics. National exit polls of more than 17,000 voters show a remarkable trend: Adults age 18-29 voted against the Republican Tsunami by 16 points (56-40). Younger adults age … More >>
Silent Victims
With so many people competing for so few jobs, unemployed youth “are the silent victims of the economy,” said Adele McKeon, a career specialist with the Boston Private Industry Council who counsels students on matters like workplace etiquette, professionalism and résumé writing. Getting that first job “is an accomplishment, and it’s independence,” Ms. McKeon said. “If you don’t have it, where are you going to learn that stuff?” The unemployment rate for the 16-to-24 age group reached a record 19.6 percent in April, double the national average. For those job seekers, said Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, “This is the worst year, definitely since the early ’80s recession and very likely since the Great Depression.” Job Outlook for Teenagers … More >>
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Photo of the Week: Vigor
Though his picture is everywhere this week, we couldn’t help honoring Senator Kennedy a bit more. This image, from his Senate campaign in 1962, shows Kennedy as an idealistic youth just getting started. A great reminder of why we do what we do. Photo: uncredited
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Young & Homeless in NYC
A recent study published by Convenant House , which operates shelters for young people, reveals the number of young and homeless in New York City has increased by one-third since last year. On any given night, approximately 3,800 young people are on the street. [T]he study, one of the largest-ever examinations of young homeless people in New York, found that their future did not look much better — because they are dangerously isolated from mainstream channels of work, family life and basic schooling. Forty-seven percent of the group said they had been disciplined physically before entering the shelter, 37 percent said they had been victims of physical abuse, and 19 percent had endured sexual abuse. Forty-one percent said they had … More >>
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