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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… Read 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… Read 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.… Read 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
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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
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