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they comprised 26 percent of students who received out-of-school suspensions

Office for Civil Rights. 2019. “School Climate and Safety,” p. 1. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education. https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/school-climate-and-safety.pdf.

they often lack the resources and connections that other young people have relied on to weather this crisis and face staggering levels of job loss and food insecurity

FosterClub. 2020. “The Impact of COVID-19 on Youth from Foster Care: A National Poll,” p. 2-4. https://www.fosterclub.com/sites/default/files/docs/blogs/COVID%20Poll%20Results%20May%2010%202020.pdf.

To afford this rent, a single person working full-time would have to make almost $24 an hour

Ibid at p. 2.

Today, there are fresh threats of separations due to the Remain in Mexico program

Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights. 2020. “Family Separation is Not Over,” p.13-14.

Today, wealth is even more concentrated than income

Stone, Chad, Danilo Trisi, Arloc Sherman, and Roderick Taylor. 2020. “A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality,” p.1. Washington, DC: Center on [...]

Today’s median Black family owns $3,600

Collins, Chuck, Darrick Hamilton, Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, and Josh Hoxie. 2019. “Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide,” p. 7. Washington, DC: Institute for Policy [...]

Too many students could not access modified education or lived in districts where no instruction was offered after schools closed for the last several months of the 2019-2020 school year

ParentsTogether Action. 2020. “ParentsTogether Survey Reveals Remote Learning is Failing Our Most Vulnerable Students.” New York, NY: ParentsTogether Action. https://parentstogetheraction.org/2020/05/27/parentstogether-survey-reveals-remote-learning-is-failing-our-most-vulnerable-students-2/.

Too many students, especially students of color, face exclusionary discipline policies that threaten to derail their education or over-policed schools that put their very safety at risk

Jimenez, Laura and Antoinette Flores. 2019. “3 Ways DeVos Has Put Students At Risk by Deregulating Education.” Washington, DC: Center for American Progress. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/reports/2019/05/30/470509/3-ways-devos-put-students-risk-deregulating-education/.

Treyjon and other young people detained in Louisiana

Madeson, Frances. 2020. “Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic, Parents and Advocates Push for a Release of Juvenile Inmates.” Louisiana Illuminator, July 22. https://lailluminator.com/2020/07/22/amidst-covid-19-pandemic-parents-and-advocates-push-for-a-release-of-juvenile-inmates/.

unconscionable choice of either separating from their children or staying in indefinite detention during a global pandemic

Amnesty International USA. 2020. “Family Separation 2.0: ‘You Aren’t Going to Separate Me from My Only Child.’” New York, NY: Amnesty International USA. https://www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Amnesty-International-USA-Family-Separation-2.0_May-21-2020-.pdf.

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