Independent Sector | News Release -- Social Justice Grantmaking: "First Lady Laura Bush Releases New Study
Showing High Levels of Teen Volunteering
High youth volunteer rate linked to teens’ ties to school, family, religion
(Washington, D.C., November 30, 2005) -- First Lady Laura Bush today joined a group of local high school students at a service-learning project to announce a new federal study that finds 55 percent of American teenagers volunteered last year – nearly double the rate of adults.
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“I think it's really, really good news, and I'm very, very proud. I'm proud of this generation. I knew anecdotally that they were volunteering everywhere because I see young people volunteering wherever I go, but now this confirms it with the results of these studies,” said Mrs. Bush. “We know that volunteering can be taught, that helping people is something you can learn to do. And now we know that so many young people in the United States have learned that.”"
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