ON THE ROAD: Youth Summit
Jobs, childhood poverty, drug addiction, education and college costs were on the agenda on Sunday when U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders brought his campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination to a Youth Summit at a community center in Des Moines.
State Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad, founder of the Creative Visions Human Development Institute, welcomed Sanders to the meeting with about 80 high school and college students invited to attend from around Iowa.
“You are the future of America,” Sanders said. “You are smart enough to know that the issues we are going to discuss are enormously important for your lives.”
In the wealthiest country in history, Sanders said the way American children are treated reflects on our national priorities. One in five children in America live in poverty. College costs have soared. There is too little affordable childcare for too many working families. Too many minority youths are unemployed.
“We need to stand up to very powerful and very greedy people who could care less about working families,” Sanders said.
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