Media and lawmakers acknowledge the critical role young people have played in the last several elections, ahead of the Harris-Trump race.
Rather than take the youth vote for granted, older adults must collaborate with and trust young people to make sure their priorities are addressed in policymaking.
Turnout among young people in non-presidential election years has increased within the last decade. Nearly a quarter of young people voted in—nearly twice the 2013 youth turnout rate of 13 percent. Michigan has the highest youth turnout rate in the country at 37 percent, with Minnesota, Maine, Oregon and Colorado also above 30 percent.
In my household, I regularly engage my teenage children in discussions about how policy impacts their lives. Why, at age 15, do you make a subminimum wage in your summer job? Why do you have to take standardized testing at the end of the year? Why do you have to provide consent for me to view your medical records?
Issues like climate change, reproductive justice, student debt, education and gun violence are life-and-death issues, with clear implications for young people’s daily experiences. We spent the first year of the project collaborating with young people to define our policy agenda, and we have been working ever since to make the New Deal that young people are demanding a reality. Based on this experience and others, where theThis trust can be a huge challenge for nonprofit staff because it means letting go of control over timelines, outcomes and deliverables.
speaks to the fact that all of us are sometimes in a position of privilege despite the marginalized identities that we may also hold. So, even though I experience marginalization as a Black woman, I also hold privilege as an older person in certain rooms. I see it as my responsibility to use my positional power for good, to uplift young people’s perspectives in rooms where they aren’t and push for decision-makers to bring young people into those same rooms.
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