Sentences with phrase «of as a young persons»

And the development of them as young people was phenomenal, you don't see that when you've got them behind desks in a mainstream classroom, learning from textbooks and following a rigid curriculum.

Not exact matches

We can, and must, do something to expand opportunity for every young person — not simply as a moral imperative but out of economic necessity and competitiveness.

(Of course, other factors such as family environment could influence a person's intelligence at a young age.)

So it would be easy — too easy — to dismiss Occupy Wall Street as a bunch of well - intentioned young people tilting at windmills.

«As a first - time, young female founder who quickly grew from three people on a couch to a team of ten, we love how this book clearly outlines so many tactical approaches to communication, being a good leader, and building trust on the team.»

We have almost 6 million young people in America who are between the ages of 18 and 24 labeled as opportunity youth.

The My Brother's Keeper initiative was launched to address persistent opportunity gaps as part of ensuring that all young people can achieve their full potential.

«(I had) this dream that from a tiny acorn, the potential of a young person, could grow this massive oak tree... as Nelson Mandela said: «Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.»

«Young people do not look at sales as a realistic, ideal career path,» says Jamie Scarborough, co-founder of the recruitment firm Sales Talent Agency and a PROFITguide columnist.

In addition to serving as the chair of Virgin Unite, she is also the founder and trustee of her own non-profit, Big Change, and the co-chair of We Day UK, an annual event that celebrates young people making a difference in the world.

While the number of employed young people remains desperately low, some experts suggest entrepreneurship as an increasingly worthy option.

A lot of what we hear from young people today is really just based on their expectation, as opposed to this being some unusual period that might relate to what's going on with another group of workers.»

Fancy tried to repurpose as many of those people into other roles as possible but at the end of the day, it's a startup and when it pivots it pivots... [Layoffs are] always unfortunate but at the end of the day, Fancy is a startup that is still young and agile.»

«The United States, though inherently hostile to North Korea, will get to know once our talk begins that I am not the kind of person who will use nuclear weapons against the South or the United States across the Pacific,» Moon's press secretary Yoon Young - chan quoted Kim as saying.

«The U.S. is good at creating job opportunities for young people, but in other countries, there just are not as many job opportunities for people between the ages of 16 and 25,» he says.

Canada has one of the youngest populations in the G7, even as it rapidly ages as more people hit retirement age with fewer replacement workers available as a result of low birth rates.

I think the young people of our country are hungry for a visionary leader, and are fed up with politics as usual.

«By recognizing and rewarding entrepreneurial pursuits, we're encouraging young people to use entrepreneurship as a means to a better future for themselves and all of society.»

The feedback loop of the city making itself attractive to start - ups and start - ups helping to make the city attractive to talented young people (who in turn create more businesses that attract more young people) is only getting started, but Robinson says he can already see the effects both in terms of the area's legitimacy — «people are saying, «hey, I would actually invest here or I would start my business here» as opposed to 10 years ago where people would avoid the city at all costs» — and quality of life for young people.

The younger entrepreneurs are quick to acknowledge their»80s counterparts as their mentors, the people who laid the groundwork for a whole new way of doing business.

I have known Jamie for many years and have been impressed with his dynamism as he has ramped up his restaurant business and built his worldwide brand through his various TV shows, all the while pouring his efforts into teaching people to eat better, drawing public attention to the poor quality of school lunches, and developing Fifteen, his restaurant and social enterprise that trains unemployed young people to become professional chefs.

Young people are finding themselves in health - care limbo as the powers that be in Washington continue to wrestle with repeal and replace attempts of the Affordable Care Act.

Between the wall on the U.S. - Mexico border and the status of the undocumented young people who were brought to the country as children (known as Dreamers), immigration has been a major policy issue for the Trump administration.

While most people in the U.S. still use traditional search engines such as Google to find what they're looking for online, users — especially younger ones — are increasingly discovering websites by way of social networks.

You need that investment growth to lift your retirement prospects, as many people won't be able to afford the same lifestyle of their younger days relying on the raw savings from their salary alone.

Instead of pursuing our dreams as young people, we're often just trying to avoid imaginary pitfalls or conform to a predictable, mythological career path.

He's often approached by young people who can articulate problems with the industrial food system, but are frustrated because they don't know what to do about it, according to Tobias Peggs, who will serve as CEO of Square Roots.

A new study puts the figure into stark numerical terms: while as many as 2,070 adults used e-cigs to quit in 2015, another 168,000 young people who used the devices went on to become smokers of conventional cigarettes.

He told Variety that he wants young people to «go to movie theaters with the same degree of intensity as baby boomers went to movie theaters throughout their lives.»

The CEOs were asked how they would advise a young person keen to invest $ 500,000 received as part of an inheritance.

They believe too that a voluntary military and civilian national service program for young people would help alleviate the social disruption and teach important new skills and provide tutoring to disadvantaged students, help for the elderly, and improvements of public spaces such as parks and playgrounds.

Byanyima blamed «tax dodging» as a major cause of global inequality and urged leaders to clamp down on tax havens and plough money into education, healthcare and jobs for young people.

As people flee the high prices of cable, there are a slew of services stepping into the gap to offer more flexible streaming TV services tailored toward younger people.

However, the issue of phone addiction among young people has become a growing concern in the United States as parents report their children can not give up their phones.

Today's hyper - connected, hyper - informed millennials are acutely aware of this, as many of these young people emerged from college amid the great recession.

But China novice or not, when he says that «it seems as if this place is moving at such light speed that a lot of young people don't get a chance to have a second thought,» he's right.

- The company has already reached 70 % (7,000 employees) of its 10,000 - employee commitment for hiring «opportunity youth» (unemployed young people who are not in school) as well as being 25 % of the way toward its even more ambitious 100,000 opportunity youth hiring goal, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, that Starbucks successfully goaded other corporate giants (Target, Walmart, etc.) to join in.

Isolation is of such concern that young people 16 to 24 who are neither employed nor in school are now tracked and classified as «disconnected youth.»

A young Texan known as Dread Pirate Roberts (real name: Ross Ulbricht) built Silk Road on three then - new technologies: cheap cloud data storage; the Tor browser, which let people roam dark parts of the Internet undetected; and Bitcoin, which let them pay each other in a secure, semi-anonymous manner, without involving banks.

I've covered one or two before, such as WayUp founder Liz Wessel's dictum that young people should always default to «yes,» but if you're in the market for this sort of bite - sized but actionable advice, a recent Psychology Today piece from UConn professor and author Gina Barreca is the real mother lode.

Also surprising: Young people with the highest rates of social media use reported very similar feelings of loneliness to those who barely use it, Still, Cordani says, «meaningful social interaction» was seen as key to reducing isolation so more face - to - face conversations are needed.

Young people are increasingly ignoring the places that have, for years, been thought of as the incumbent leaders in such content.

Falling Whistles started as a journal about the young Congolese boys who are sent to the frontlines of war armed with nothing but a whistle, but it quickly became a movement tens of thousands strong of people wanting to help.

Military hackers are among the most talented, and rewarded, people in North Korea, handpicked and trained from as young as 17, said Jang Se - yul, who studied with them at North Korea's military college for computer science, or the University of Automation, before defecting to the South six years ago.

Levels of depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts have gone up in the last ten years,» notes Cowart, as well as a great many others concerned about the mental health of young people.

Zahid identifies young people as a key demographic that has largely been reticent to get on the saddle, since cycles to this point have not featured the same social connectivity options that are a staple of every other aspect of their lives.

They see the new dream as a matter of a young person just not knowing what they want.

As Richard Settersten, author of Not Quite Adults: Why 20 - Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone, has said: «the media focuses so much on coddled kids, but there's a huge, invisible class of young people that's just not part of our public discussion and who are really in dire straits.»

Logo, which alongside MTV presented Cox's Daytime Emmy - winning 2014 documentary The T Word spotlighting the stories of seven transgender young people, will again address the issue this fall with the doc Gen Silent, zeroing in on a group of LGBT seniors confronting discrimination as they encounter health care issues.

I think the chance to help strengthen the foundation of young people going into business, as I did, just appeals to me.»