{"id":9553,"date":"2012-08-23T15:46:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T19:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=9553"},"modified":"2012-08-23T15:46:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T19:46:24","slug":"major-new-circle-study-on-non-college-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=9553","title":{"rendered":"major new CIRCLE study on non-college youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, CIRCLE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/thats-not-democracy-how-out-of-school-youth-engage-in-civic-life-and-what-stands-in-their-way\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CIRCLE_ThatsNotDemocracy_Quotes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a>released our study entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/thats-not-democracy-how-out-of-school-youth-engage-in-civic-life-and-what-stands-in-their-way\/\">That\u2019s Not Democracy. How Out-of-School Youth Engage in Civic Life and What Stands in Their Way<\/a>.&#8221; It&#8217;s really the fruit of several years&#8217; work, including focus groups and survey analysis.<\/p>\n<p>The study documents the deep sense of alienation experienced by working-class young adults in an era when the organizations that traditionally organized and engaged them&#8211;unions, churches, grassroots political parties, and metropolitan daily newspapers&#8211;are\u00a0 shattered, and national leaders generally ignore their concerns.<\/p>\n<p>On the positive side, it shows that they discuss political issues, perhaps with more intensity than their college-bound peers, and they <em>want<\/em> to engage, especially on behalf of the children in their households and neighborhoods. It&#8217;s a bookend to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/released-today-at-the-white-house-circle-study-shows-youthbuild-builds-leaders\/\">major study of YouthBuild USA<\/a>, which found that when young people from similar backgrounds are recruited and encouraged to be leaders, they thrive. The implication from putting the two studies together is clear: invest in working class young adults!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, CIRCLE released our study entitled &#8220;That\u2019s Not Democracy. How Out-of-School Youth Engage in Civic Life and What Stands in Their Way.&#8221; It&#8217;s really the fruit of several years&#8217; work, including focus groups and survey analysis. The study documents the deep sense of alienation experienced by working-class young adults in an era when the organizations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocating-civic-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9553"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9557,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553\/revisions\/9557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}