Category Archives: Young People

Seven Reasons to Love DonorsChoose.org: Lessons for School Fundraisers?

By Kristin Wolff | Published: June 27, 2010
Fundraising for Public Education I’ll be frank. I have mixed feelings about (seemingly endless) school fundraisers. As a policy wonk, I understand that needs exceed resources, but am perpetually frustrated when we are not transparent about the value of donations and contributions in public-school budgets, making it impossible to know what it actually costs to [...]
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Big Changes at Work

By Kristin Wolff | Published: January 23, 2010
Last week we were drafting a set of policy recommendations for a project. We’d drafted an introduction that named demographics, technology, and the competitive landscape as among the most significant domains of change in the workplace during the past decade. At that point I realized how many times I’d seen this collection of words and [...]
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New Approaches for Young Wish-They-Were-Workers

By Lewis Humphreys | Published: September 15, 2009
Really high unemployment among youth. One of the most alarming bits of bad news in a sea of unwelcome statistics about unemployment, is just how bad it is for the young American worker these days. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) finds that the proportion of young people employed in July was 51.4 percent, “the [...]
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