#1556: Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth | The Best Of Our Knowledge

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Jul 17 2020 | 00:27:30

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Show Notes

Nearly five million young people, more than 10 percent of youth aged sixteen to twenty-four, experience entry into adulthood as abrupt abandonment. This week on The Best Of Our Knowledge, we speak to Journalist Anne Kim, who discusses this generation of young people in her new book Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of […]

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