{"id":3718,"date":"2020-10-30T03:55:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T03:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2020-10-30T03:55:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T03:55:07","slug":"the-often-overlooked-reasons-why-young-people-dont-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3718","title":{"rendered":"The often-overlooked reasons why young people don\u2019t vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Young people are attending college, often in a different location from where they grew up. They\u2019re working full-time or part-time while attending school, often at low-wage jobs that can have unstable work schedules. They don\u2019t have access to transportation. They move around a lot, change schools, or study abroad. They don\u2019t know where they\u2019ll be living three months in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou think about the fact that most 40-year-olds … have a stable workweek where you kind of know when you\u2019ll fit voting in on that first Tuesday in November,\u201d said Sunshine Hillygus, a political science professor at Duke University who co-wrote a book on young voters<\/a>, on the EdSurge<\/em><\/a> podcast. \u201cWhereas young people have a far more fluid and unstable schedule and lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Registering to vote<\/a> \u2014 and figuring out where and how to vote<\/a> \u2014 can look easy on paper. But for many young adults, getting clear instructions, along with all the variables that can change at the last minute, is more challenging than you might think. Hillygus suggests reforms<\/a> that ease the process of voting, such as preregistering young people to vote in high school or when they get their driver\u2019s license at 16, as well as better overall civic education in schools that connect government and politics with teens\u2019 everyday lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vox spoke to three young people who encountered logistical difficulties that prevented or nearly prevented them from voting. All of them wanted to make clear that they and their young peers do want to vote, but that the barriers to making it happen can feel daunting.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/21497637\/election-2020-youth-vote-young-people-voting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Young people are attending college, often in a different location from where they grew up. They\u2019re working full-time or part-time while attending school, often at low-wage jobs that can have unstable work schedules. They don\u2019t have access to transportation. They move around a lot, change schools, or study abroad. They don\u2019t know where they\u2019ll be living three months in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou think about the fact that most 40-year-olds … have a stable workweek where you kind of know when you\u2019ll fit voting in on that first Tuesday in November,\u201d said Sunshine Hillygus, a political science professor at Duke University who co-wrote a book on young voters, on the EdSurge podcast. \u201cWhereas young people have a far more fluid and unstable schedule and lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Registering to vote \u2014 and figuring out where and how to vote \u2014 can look easy on paper. But for many young adults, getting clear instructions, along with all the variables that can change at the last minute, is more challenging than you might think. Hillygus suggests reforms that ease the process of voting, such as preregistering young people to vote in high school or when they get their driver\u2019s license at 16, as well as better overall civic education in schools that connect government and politics with teens\u2019 everyday lives.<\/p>\n

Vox spoke to three young people who encountered logistical difficulties that prevented or nearly prevented them from voting. All of them wanted to make clear that they and their young peers do want to vote, but that the barriers to making it happen can feel daunting.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[479],"class_list":["post-3718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3719,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions\/3719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}