The approach simultaneously educates students on climate change and reduces the campus carbon footprint.

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A practical guide for organizations supporting young people in their transition to the workplace.

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Rachel Solomon, 18, was the winner of a youth entrepreneurs pitch fest this fall.

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Sylvia Smith found her true passion in goats at age 12.

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Some of today’s freedom schools enroll only Black youth, others a "racial rainbow."

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The Democrat-controlled state Legislature overrode the Republican governor's veto of the Brattleboro charter change.

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The lack of volunteers strains the safety net that nonprofits provide to the vulnerable.

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Holly Whitfield begins work immediately leading the Savannah youth arts and leadership nonprofit.

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17 out-of-school time professionals from across the country were chosen.

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Across the country, young people are banding together to undertake surveys and create heat maps that capture their communities’ desire to mitigate and adapt to rising temperatures, which is helping to ensure that interventions are community-led rather than implemented top-down.

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Last August, teachers and other school staff at Cypress Bay joined what the surgeon’s group says are more than 2.4 million people who have completed that training. Among them is Paul Gorlick, a social sciences teacher and advisor to Cypress Bay’s Make Our Schools Safe chapter, which Freeland, a senior, launched.

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Emergency wound management such as that taught through the American College of Surgeons’ Stop the Bleed program, its proponents say, offers gun-injured individuals a better shot at survival.

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Student groups argue that damage to the environment and human health inflicted by the fossil fuel industry conflicts with the schools’ missions to care for their students and future generations. The groups are working with lawyers at the Climate Defense Project to bring legal complaints against their schools’ respective investment funds. 

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Climate change is a galvanizing force for young people whose lives are being radically altered by storms, wildfires, drought, heat waves and other effects of manmade global warming.

In this ongoing series, Youth Today explores how a generation is adapting to these dramatic shifts while fighting for their future. 

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Over the summer, youth climate activists ramped up their campaign, organizing petitions, sit-ins, protests and rallies at Congress and state capitols across the country. Their persistence appeared to pay off when Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, the federal government’s largest investment in climate action ever, on Aug. 16. The law includes about $370 billion for renewable energy, environmental justice and infrastructure upgrades.

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Online registration was among the expanded forms of voter access that several states implemented in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. That tool, vote-by-mail, early voting, curbside voting, electronic voting and related initiatives were an upshot of the pandemic for disabled voters, said Michelle Bishop, the National Disability Rights Network’s voter access engagement manager. Yet, since then, she and other observers argue, voter-access progress has stalled in some states.

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More than a thousand protesters, many of them skipping school, marched through the streets.

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Sixto Cancel has truly beat the odds. His innovative approach to leveraging a technology platform geared toward capturing the lived experience of current and former foster youth has landed him on the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Social Entrepreneurs and made him an influential voice in the youth services field. After Think of Us released its latest paper on group homes, he rallied alongside Paris Hilton urging legislators to stop abuse in foster care institutions. Cancel has shared his story of growing up in foster care publicly countless times, but it's a harrowing story worth a quick re-telling for those who haven't heard it.  

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Youth Today spoke with Lacayo about his experiences teaching throughout the pandemic, how policymakers can support students and teachers and the importance of representation in education.

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Launched in winter 2019 by a Black woman and an Asian American woman, both 27, People Matter echoes cross-racial collaboration extending back to the 1950s and 60s. Back then, for example, Asian American activists Yuri Kochiyama and Grace Lee Boggs and Black American Malcolm X, together, protested U.S. racial discrimination and involvement in the Vietnam War.

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