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"Economic stability and removing financial strain is critical to supporting young families, said Kisha Bird, director of youth policy at the Center for Law and Social Policy."
Kisha Bird was quoted about why a New Deal for youth is needed.
Kisha Bird was quoted about celebrating Kwanzaa this year: "When I think about Kwanzaa now, I don’t think about it as necessarily just those particular days at the end of each year as a holiday per say, but how do we as Black people in America, as descendants of Africa, live out these principles?"
Kisha Bird was quoted: "For low-income young people living in high-poverty communities, first jobs — summer jobs — “have not necessarily been in their communities for decades."
“Those are equipment and weapons that are used on war,” Kisha Bird, with the Center for Law and Social Policy, said. “The signal that it is showing to communities that are over-policed, which is black communities in particular, is that we are at war with you.”
Kisha Bird was quoted about how the coronavirus will have an impact on youth: “When the economy reopens, it will not necessarily be reopening for these young people.”
Kisha Bird was a guest on Forward Promise's "Heal Grow Thrive" podcast.
Op-ed by Kisha Bird on how funding for summer job programs for low-income teenagers are needed today.
CLASP's 50th Anniversary event "A Conversation on Youth Economic Mobility, Equity, and Justice," which took place in Atlanta, was featured in this article.
Kisha Bird was interviewed on a radio show segment about the the school to prison pipeline and the struggles for justice and equality for the young people in their communities.