{"id":72,"date":"2024-06-28T02:28:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T02:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/?p=72"},"modified":"2024-06-29T14:56:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T14:56:41","slug":"ballots-and-brains-encouraging-young-people-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/2024\/06\/28\/ballots-and-brains-encouraging-young-people-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballots and brains: Encouraging young people to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>By Ella Namiranian<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, four high schoolers around Boston will attend MassVOTE\u2019s Young Civic Leaders program to encourage young people to make an impact in their communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;MassVOTE is an organization that works to protect voting rights for people, particularly people in low-income communities,\u201d said Bridgit Brown, the leader of the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founded in 2007 by MassVOTE Executive Director Cheryl Clyburn Crawford, the Young Civic Leaders program was begun as a response to the lack of youth understanding of and involvement in American politics and government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full story below: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<script id=\"asp-embed-script\" data-zindex=\"1000000\" type=\"module\" type=\"text\/javascript\"  charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/new.express.adobe.com\/webpage\/static\/embed\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n            <a class=\"asp-embed-link\" href=\"https:\/\/new.express.adobe.com\/webpage\/uqzb9LDAhn5VT\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.express.adobe.com\/webpage\/uqzb9LDAhn5VT\/resources?asset_id=rendition&#038;buster=1719541587359\" alt=\"Ballots and brains: Encouraging young people to vote\" style=\"width:100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ella Namiranian For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, four high schoolers around Boston will attend MassVOTE\u2019s Young Civic Leaders program to encourage young people to make an impact in their communities. &#8220;MassVOTE is an organization that works to protect voting rights for people, particularly people in low-income communities,\u201d said Bridgit Brown, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41,39,32,40],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-massvote","tag-state-house","tag-voting","tag-young-voters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/betweenthelines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}