CNN – Leaders from the Center for Law and Social Policy’s New Deal for Youth Initiative were featured in an article on the ways in which President Biden’s plans incorporate their feedback.
“When the White House put out this infrastructure and jobs plan, we did a ‘control f’ and looked for youth and what provisions they had for young people. To be honest, there weren’t many at all,” said Duy Pham, the 28-year-old who sits on the youth policy team and leads justice work at the Center for Law and Social Policy. “We were really worried that so many young people and young people of color would be left out. We did a lot of meetings and put together a smaller coalition focused on jobs for young people,” Pham said, adding that he has since met with the Department of Labor in addition to the White House.
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