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Youth Priorities report by UNA-USA
Research & Studies

The 2025-2026 American Youth Priorities Report captures what American youth actually think about the world they're inheriting.

Gen Z Toolkit
Blog Post

A Young Personʼs Guide to Protecting and Participating in U.S. Elections
Alexis Nwatu and Lara Hicks
APRIL 2026

Daily Show interview
Blog Post

Civil rights lawyer and founding director of Howard Law School's 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy, Sherrilyn Ifill, sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss the Supreme Court’s weakening of the Voting Rights Act.

News

NYSUT stresses the importance of Civics and Media Literacy education for students in their March/April magazine.

NYSUT is asking the state Legislature to commit $2.5 million to expand civics education at the elementary level, $5 million to increase access to the Seal of Civic Readiness, and $15 million to enhance media and AI literacy so students have the skills they need to analyze information and judge for themselves what to trust, share, and base decisions on.

News

Article in the Daily Sentinel

UTICA — The League of Women Voters of the Utica-Rome Metro area has been awarded a grant from the League of Women Voters National organization to help engage prospective young voters and under-represented communities and encourage them to get involved in the political process.

Blog Post

The Census is a perennial issue for the League of Women Voters. Every person counts. As the 2030 Census approaches in the coming years, we will continue to update the 2030 Census Engagement Action Kit with appropriate resources.

News

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact has now been enacted by 19 jurisdictions possessing 222 of the 270 electoral votes needed to activate it.

Public Statement

March 13, 2026 

Senator Peter Harckham, Chair 

NY Senate Environmental Committee    

News

The Youth Voter Grant Committee has been hard at work, scheduling events including voter registration drives to engage our local youth in elections and voting.

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