At the time of really difficult transition and challenges for our country, we cant afford as a society or economy frankly to leave any of our young people behind. Estimates show that somewhere, as many as 5 million young people between the ages of 16 to 24 in the United States are currently not enrolled in an Educational Program or participating in the work force. I believe very strongly as governors that we have the responsibility to do everything we can to reach these youth and give them avenues of opportunity to reconnect and engage with them in continuing education. And on ramps to fulfilling careers. And a lot of cases of course there are many barriers to making that happen. For these young people. Including economic mobility, and providing them with the opportunity for their futures. Some of the barriers, these young people are facing include homelessness, poor health outcomes, violence, and of course the criminal Justice System. In oregon we are tackling these barriers one by on
At the time of really difficult transition and challenges for our country, we cant afford as a society or economy frankly to leave any of our young people behind. Estimates show that somewhere, as many as 5 million young people between the ages of 16 to 24 in the United States are currently not enrolled in an Educational Program or participating in the work force. I believe very strongly as governors that we have the responsibility to do everything we can to reach these youth and give them avenues of opportunity to reconnect and engage with them in continuing education. And on ramps to fulfilling careers. And a lot of cases of course there are many barriers to making that happen. For these young people. Including economic mobility, and providing them with the opportunity for their futures. Some of the barriers, these young people are facing include homelessness, poor health outcomes, violence, and of course the criminal Justice System. In oregon we are tackling these barriers one by on
Better serve our nations greatest resource and that is our young people. At a time really difficult transition and challenges for our country, we cannot afford either as a society or as an economy frankly to leave any of our young people behind. An estimate show somewhere as many as 5 million young people between 16 and 24 in the United States are currently not enrolled in an Educational Program or participating in the workforce. I believe very strongly as governors we have a responsibility to do everything that we can to reach these youth and provide them with avenue avf opportunity to reconnect and engage them in continuing education and onramp the fizzling careers. A lot of cases there are many barriers to making that happen to these young people. Including economic mobility and providing them with the opportunity for their futures some of the barriers they are facing, homelessness, poor health outcome, violence in the criminal Justice System. In oregon, we are tackling these barrie
Right . You are with your friends very often and they walk by a homeless person and the first thing they do is pilaf ones peel off ones and you are like hey, youre not solving the problem. And you know that. With your acute knowledge that you have, we should be putting together policies and strategies to take care of atlantas homeless problem. Something happened. There were breakdowns along the way. We know that Substance Abuse is real. We know when Substance Abuse starts. We know it starts, for most people, in high school. The real hardcore ones, right around 11. For the most part, right around high school. And we know the people who are most susceptible to it. We know about their family patterns. We know all of these things. Yet we are not pushing for programs, the supportive programs to do it. So then our programs are these little programs. Well,d of us saying, Substance Abuse starts in the teens, typically. So we did some programming in the high schools. Not just the dont do drugs,
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