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NowThis showcases Vote16DC, with Yara Shahidi!
NowThis Eighteenx18 with Yara Shahidi showcases Vote16DC, talks to our leaders, and Council Member Charles Allen!
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City In Colorado Could Join Movement To Give Younger Citizens The Vote
KUNC Radio in Colorado covers the effort to lower the voting age in Golden, CO.
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“Politico 50” Features Two Proposals to Lower the Voting Age to 16
The annual Politico 50 list, a list of "50 ideas blowing up American politics (and the people behind them)" features not one but two proposals to lower the voting age to 16. Several of the individuals profiled by Politico were asked to name a new amendment they would...
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Students make the case for lowering Malden’s voting age
Members of Malden Rising Leaders Summer Fellowship Program in Massachusetts are working to lower the voting age locally, and recently shared their work with community members at a public presentation.
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Paving the path to become life-long voters in Golden, CO
Golden, CO City Council is beginning discussion on lowering the voting age to 16 for municipal elections.
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Teen Vogue Reports on Vote16DC
Teen Vogue circulated the PBS News Hour Student Reporting Labs piece on the June 27th hearing, featuring a youth leader from Vote16DC, Tiffany M.
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Should the voting age be lowered to 16 across the United States?
“Supporters of the idea have pointed to this rise in student activism as challenging the tiresome stereotype that American teens are narcissists whose brains have been idled by smartphones.”
The Denver Channel presents a 360 view on the issue, including views from a child psychiatrist.
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The Teen-Agers Fighting for Climate Justice
The New Yorker profiles youth leaders at the Youth Climate March in New York, two of them with the Youth Progressive Policy Group, a group working to lower the voting age in New York to 17.
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Scripps Reporting with Vote16DC Leaders
Northampton, MA votes to lower the voting age
City Council in Northampton, MA voted unanimously to lower the voting age. Next step: the State House for a home rule charter change! Great work from our Vote16USA leaders in MA, one of which is a youth advisory board member!
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Three steps to fixing our political system
Great op-ed from the Herald Leader – propositions include 1) widening our perspective, 2) lower the voting age 3) sharing power
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These DC-area teens want to lower the voting age to 16
The PBS Student Reporting Labs Academy talked with Vote16DC leader Tiffany Missembe and covered the June 27 city council hearing for the Youth Vote Amendment Act of 2018.
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Should 16-year-olds be able to vote? A majority of the D.C. Council thinks so
The Washington Post covered the hearing on June 27 in D.C. regarding the Youth Vote Amendment Act of 2018, which would allow 16 year olds to vote in the district. D.C. is poised to become the first major city to change the voting age to 16, and not just for municipal elections.
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Looking toward November: Why we should lower the voting age to 16
Ethan Grant, a member of the Northampton Mayor’s Youth Commission, offers his support and the steps Northampton is taking to lower the voting age in this op-ed from the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
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