This brief summarizes key themes that emerged from interviews with Summer Youth Employment Programs (SYEP) funders, program providers, and youth participants in Albany, Denver, Louisville, Los Angeles, New York, and Orlando.
By Noel Tieszen For decades, Summer Youth Employment Programs (SYEPs) have provided income, career exposure, and real-life work experience for thousands of young people across the United States. Yet year after year, youth and community leaders report that there are not enough summer jobs to…
The Census Bureau annual release on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage shows that government investments in 2020 successfully reduced poverty.
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.
This report offers practical programmatic solutions that support second chances for young people and raise policy and systems considerations to address equity, collateral consequences, and opportunity.
This report describes the lived experiences of marginalized youth and young adults living in poverty. It's based on findings from our focus groups in "small and hard-to-reach" communities.
This brief shows how Trump's justice department has turned back progress for youth and young adults of color. It also provides an anti-incarceration framework to combat law-and-order policies.
This report provides insights and next steps from our 2017 convening, which discussed the need for a multi-generational, multi-racial, youth-centered dialogue around policy change.
This brief discusses pathways to adult and postsecondary education for undocumented youth, including those who did not qualify for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).