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CLASP's New Deal for Youth was featured in this article about solutions for youth unemployment.
"During the pandemic, young people have been unemployed at more than double the national average, and rates of uninsured young adults have risen, according to data from the Center for Law and Social Policy."
CLASP joined Heartland Alliance, the National Youth Employment Coalition and nearly 100 national and local organizations calling on Congress to include an equity-centered national subsidized employment program as a part of the forthcoming recovery package as recommended by President Biden in his American Jobs Plan.
New Deal 4 Youth Changemaker Connor Kalahiki was quoted in this article.
Dr. Nia West-Bey and other New Deal for Youth changemakers were featured on a podcast about the launch of #WhyWeCantWait: A New Deal for Youth.
Today, young leaders at the helm of A New Deal for Youth (ND4Y) released the following statement calling for swift passage of the American Rescue Plan, while noting how it still fails to address the specific challenges facing young people in America that have been exacerbated by the pandemic.
Today, young adult leaders from across the country called on the Biden Administration, Members of Congress, public and private sectors decisionmakers to support Why We Can’t Wait: A New Deal for Youth, a policy effort to address the urgent economic and social challenges facing young people in America and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
We can’t wait for economic justice. We can’t wait for healing and wellbeing. We can’t wait for safe communities. It is time for a New Deal for Youth.
These policy recommendations address health and mental health, employment and economic security, education and career pathways, justice and safe communities, and child care for youth and young adults in America.
New data paints a portrait of the state of young people, both before and since the pandemic