5.2: Youths

Youth Stewardship and Engagement

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Youth engagement is a key component of the Department's vision with benefits that are far reaching. Youth involvement in Interior's stewardship agenda infuses energy and new thinking, educates a generation that has lost touch with nature in values surrounding conservation, and has the potential to improve the health of younger generations. It also has important economic benefits. According to the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, the proportion of young people employed in July 2010 was 48.9 percent, the lowest July rate on record - record keeping began in 1948. To focus on this issue, the Department has a priority goal to increase employment for young people by 50 percent by the end of 2012.

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• Youths


• Bureau of Labor Statistics

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