YOUTH NOW

The Most Powerful New Voting Bloc in America Doesn’t Vote

Young people have the power to dominate U.S. policy, but they’ve been sidelined for years. Will they vote in November? It depends.

Rachel Slade
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Published in
17 min readSep 13, 2018

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Art: Maria Chimishkyan

An enormous voting bloc is about to come of age.

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Rachel Slade
GEN
Writer for

Boston-based journo and author of "Into the Raging Sea" (Ecco/HarperCollins 2018) about the 2015 sinking of the cargo ship El Faro. www.rachelslade.net