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"So You Think You Can Dance" Producer Puts Underprivileged Youth In The Spotlight

Posted 11.24.2009 | Impact

Read More: Dancing With the Stars, Katie Holmes, Youth, Carrie Ann Inaba, Teens, Nigel Lythgoe Adam Shankman, Dance, Dancers, So You Think You Can Dance, Impact News

"So You Think You Can Dance" co-creator and executive producer Nigel Lythgoe sees a lot of talented young people who aren't quite ready to take the st...

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Who Knew a School Requirement Could Change Your Life?

Joliz Cedeno | Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact

Read More: Foreign Relations, Community Service Requirements, Global Kids, Youth, International Relations, Kids, Teens, Inspiring Youth, Impact News

Fifty hours was all I needed. This was the thought in my mind when I first came to a Global Kids meeting ten years ago.

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Countering The Sexualization Of Your Youth

Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Sexualization, Attractiveness, Youth, Research, Media, Apa, Sex Educator, Objectification, Parents, Bratz, Relationships, Living News

Miniskirts, fishnet stockings, feather boas. It all sounds sexy - 'til you realize it's being sported by that every-girl-wants-one Bratz doll.

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Tomorrow's Leaders Descend on Singapore

Stephanie Harnett | Posted 11.25.2009 | World

Read More: Youth, World Youth, Singapore, Barack Obama, Asia-Pacific Economic Conference, World News

As Obama joined leaders of the world's fastest growing economies this weekend at the Asia-Pacific Economic Conference in Singapore, his actions were closely watched by a group of youth delegates.

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Popol Vuh, Mayan Prophecies and 2012 -- Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum Visits Denver to Speak Ancient Wisdom

Lys Anzia | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver

Read More: Wisdom, Youth, Human Rights, Humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize, Events, Film, Mayan Calendar, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, 2012, Denver, Denver News

Menchú Tum’s journey has been haunted by a lifelong quest for peace for humanity and advocacy for the Maya with empowerment for all global indigenous people.

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Bassnectar On Change: "I Want To Make A Social Impact"

Causecast | Brandon Deroche and Nicholas Chung | Posted 11.05.2009 | Impact

Read More: Electronic Music, Bassnectar, Youth, Social Change, Music, Activism, Social Activism, Political Activism, Impact News

The following interview originally appeared on Causecast.org Bassnectar is Lorin Ashton's multi-faceted electronic music and social experimentation p...

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StandUp For Kids: A Hot Meal and Trust on the Street

Judy Ranan | Posted 11.03.2009 | Impact

Read More: Standup for Kids, At-Risk Youth, Youth, Street Kids, Homelessness, Homeless, Outreach, Judy Ranan, Impact News

Over the months I've come to not only respect the street kids I work with for what they've gone through, but to understand that they are survivors.

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How Lame Is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Nelson Montana | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Art, Youth, Baseball, Corporate America, Awards, Music, Artists, Generation Y, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Grand-Funk-Railroad, Entertainment News

How is it that a bunch of label executives have become the arbiters of who's worthy of honor and who isn't? It's the very antithesis of Rock and Roll!

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10 Sure Fire Ways to Make Your Life 100 Times Better

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Relationship Advice, Youth, Wealth, Corporate Responsibility, Sex, Books, Self-Confidence, Self-Improvement, Self-Esteem, Business, Confidence, Self-Help, Self-Realization, Living News

My grandmother was a wise woman. She would tell me, "Live each day, one at a time." When I asked her how else you could live, she would take a sip from the flask under her apron and shrug her shoulders.

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Young in America

David D. Burstein | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Debate, Social Innovation, Youth Vote, Youth, Unemployment Rate, Green Jobs, Economic Crisis, Social Security, Young-Invincibles, Economy, David Burstein, Renewable Energy, Jobs, Innovation, Fiscal Responsibility, Young Voters, Politics, Unemployed, Unemployment, Social Entrepreneurship, Millennials, Us Economic Crisis, Social Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care, Politics News

By most indicators young people are the most adversely affected age group by the economic crisis, the most at risk when it comes to health care coverage, and the deepest in debt.

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Powered By Service Empowers Youth To Lead Communities

Shawn Wilson | Posted 10.16.2009 | Impact

Read More: Youth, Service, Volunteer, Role Models, Shawn Wilson, Powered by Service, Usher's New Look, Volunteerism, Impact News

Service is often only characterized as random acts of charity or volunteerism. Some young people only experience service as something a teacher or a judge forces them to do. In reality, service is the most powerful way people can use their talents to shape their communities.

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Recession Creating A Lost Generation; Young People Can't Find Jobs

BusinesWeek | Peter Coy | Posted 10.11.2009 | Business

Bright, eager -- and unwanted. While unemployment is ravaging just about every part of the global workforce, the most enduring harm is being done to y...

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You Are Never Too Young To Change The World

Pat Pedraja | Posted 10.16.2009 | Impact

Read More: Driving for Donors, Leukemia, Pat Pedraja, Youth, Youth Activism, The Planet Us, Impact News

There are so many kids out there who really want to do something to help with a problem in the world, but they don't know how. Remember, you are never too young to change the world!

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Shooting Deaths of Children Rose for Second Straight Year

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Violence, Youth, Firearms, Columbine, Columbine Shooting, Brady Law, Assault Rifles, Cdc, Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Assault Rifle Bans, Guns, Littleton, Politics News

The United States is one of the few industrialized countries without common-sense controls on gun sales. We regulate toy guns but not the real ones that kill tens of thousands every year.

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Youth Unemployment the End of the American Dream

Michael J. Wilson | Posted 10.20.2009 | Home

Read More: Youth, Unemployment, Home News

Unemployed for a day, you can make it. Unemployed for a month, you will struggle. Unemployed for six months? Disaster. It's not just how many are ...

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Rocking Manhattan

Rob Morrison | Posted 09.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Bronx, Rob Morrison, Rocking Manhattan, Hudson River, East River, Youth, Rtb, South Bronx, Rowing, Boat Building, Boats, Harlem River, New York News

If you see a small flotilla of wooden boats rowing around Manhattan on Saturday, you can thank an unusual Bronx organization called Rocking the Boat -- boatbuilding for at-risk kids.

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Taking Back the Microphone

Matthew Segal | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Young Voters, Youth, Health Care Reform, Medical Costs, Young Americans, Young People, Health Care, Youth Unemployment, Barack Obama, Politics News

The public option matters because it will create an immediately affordable choice for the 80% of young people making less than $40,000 per year. It is young America's coverage plan.

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It Takes (More Than) a Village: A Few Words for Colorado's Young People

Jamie Starr | Posted 11.22.2009 | Denver

Read More: Leadership, Small Business, Unemployment, Youth, Fiscal Crisis, Community, Innovation, Independence, Colorado, Denver News

The abundant talk about cutting Colorado's budget to "core services" rightfully rattles our collective resolve to bounce back from this recession.

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Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival

Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

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When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.

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Some Musings on Labor Day

Maria Kefalas | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Jobs, Youth, Economic Recession, Business News

The nation's chronic underinvestment in young workers not headed to four-year college programs, which has been a problem for decades, now threatens to transform huge numbers of young Americans trapped in a new underclass.

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Urban Pak Youth Meet With Their Swat Counterparts To Work Towards Change

Nosheen Abbas | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: Islamabad, Youth, Retreat, Swat Valley, Middle East, Pakistan, Swat, Spotlight-on-Pakistan, Spotlight on Pakistan, Sop, Pakistani Youth, Pakistani Women, Swat Children, Pakistan Women, Swat Women, World News

This retreat was organized by youths from Islamabad in order to share a message of progressive tolerance.

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Let's Not Forget Our Youth In This Healthcare Debate

Tina Wells | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Teen, Youth, Obesity, Healthcare, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Living News

There's a generation of teens and tweens who will enter their adult lives more physically ill-equipped than any generation before them, ever.

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What is Work? Career Satisfaction for a Global Youth Culture

Sharon Glassman | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living

Read More: New College Grads, Youth, Humor, Work, Ysn, Career Advice, Job Search, Career Change, Jennifer Kushell, Sharon Glassman, Happiness, Living News

Young people worldwide have become a cohort connected by companies, products and media. And job seekers would do well to do so, too.

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Elite Pakistani Students Pick Up Trash To Clean Up The Country

Nosheen Abbas | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

Read More: Youth, Responsibility, Environmentalists, Social Responsibility, Pakistan, Islamabad-Pakistan, Youth Activism, Garbage, Islamabad, Environmentally Friendly, Responsible, Garbage-Reduction, Private Schools, Schools, Citizen, Spotlight on Pakistan, Sop, Spotlight-on-Pakistanyoung, World News

Tired of hearing people complain about what's wrong with Pakistan, these students decided to do something about it by meeting every Sunday to clean up trash.

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