Abandoned
America's Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection
Winner of the 2020 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social JusticeA deeply affecting exposé of America's hidden crisis of disconnected youth, in the tradition of Matthew Desmond and Adrian Nicole LeBlancFor the majority of young adults today, the transition to independence is a time of excitement and possibility. But 4.5 million young people-or a stunning 11.5 percent of youth aged sixteen to twenty-four-experience entry into adulthood as abrupt abandonment, a time of disconnection from school, work, and family. For this growing population of Americans, which includes kids aging out of foster care and those entangled with the ju…
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- ISBN: 978-1-62097-568-8
- EAN: 9781620975688
- Produktnummer: 33708180
- Verlag: The New Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'288 KB
Über den Autor
Anne Kim is a writer, lawyer, and public policy expert with a long career in Washington, DC-based think tanks working in and around Capitol Hill. She is also a contributing editor at Washington Monthly, where she was a senior writer. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Governing, Atlantic.com, the Wall Street Journal, Democracy, and numerous other publications. The author of Abandoned: America's Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection (The New Press), she lives in northern Virginia.
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