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Given that young people and many of the programs that serve them are disrupting the divide between college and career pathways, more robust integrated policy and practice is required at the federal, state, and local levels to build career and postsecondary pathways for young people. This affects the education space, as well as the public and private sectors. We advance bold policy suggestions that would support young people working and learning in the United States.
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Anderson, N.S., Nieves, L. (2020). A Way Forward: Building Career and Postsecondary Pathways. In: Working to Learn. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35350-6_5
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