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Wednesday November 14, 2012
Youth Weigh In On Solutions to Their Own Economic Challenges
by Mamadou NdiayeIn the contentious debate about how to fix America’s problems or even which problems to fix, the National Council of Young Leaders has offered a youth perspective. The Council is a diverse group of young people from all corners of the country who recently released their Recommendations to increase Opportunity and Decrease Poverty in America. This...
Wednesday November 7, 2012
One Unemployment Rate Does Not Fit All
by Mamadou NdiayeA newly released FSG publication, Collective Impact for Opportunity Youth proposes how communities across the country can improve the life trajectories of the nearly 20 percent of our 16- to 24-year-olds, who are not connected to either education or the workforce.
The White House Council on Community Solutions dubs this group of 6.7 million young...