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During the competitive presidential race of 2000, 36 percent of youth turned out to vote and in 2004, the "banner year in the history of youth voting," 47 percent of the American youth voted. [10] In the Democratic primaries for the 2008 U.S. presidential election , the number of youth voters tripled and even quadrupled in some states compared ...
The racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. [1] It manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to earn lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and they are less likely to enter and complete college than whites, while ...
The other aberration from this otherwise steady decline in teen birth rates is the 6% decrease in birth rates for 15- to 19-year-olds between 2008 and 2009. [102] Despite these years of decrease, U.S. teen birth rates are still higher than in other developed nations. [102] Racial differences prevail with teen birth and pregnancy rates as well.
From 2018-2021 Black youth ages 10-24 saw the largest increase in suicide compared to any other demographic group, rising 37%, according to the CDC. Rawpixel.com // Shutterstock Almost half of ...
Almost two-thirds (62 percent) of Hispanic adults aged 19 to 64 (15 million people) were uninsured at some point during the past year, a rate more than triple that of working-age white adults (20 percent). One-third of working-age black adults (more than 6 million people) were also uninsured or experienced a gap in coverage during the year.
In Massachusetts, LGBT youth are 12% less likely to make A and B grades than their heterosexual peers. [54] The GLSEN reports that 92.3% of LGBT youth report experienced harassment in 2011, compared to about 25% of the general youth population (as reported by the United States Department of Justice).
A new study from Life Happens surveyed 2,000 Americans split evenly by generation (500 Gen Zers, 500 millennials, 500 Gen Xers and 500 baby boomers) on the major milestones that define adulthood ...
The out of wedlock birth rates by race in the United States from 1940 to 2014. The rate for African Americans is the purple line. Data is from the National Vital Statistics System Reports published by the CDC National Center for Health Statistics. Note: Prior to 1969, African American out of wedlock births were included along with other ...