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USA: volunteering more popular than voting

Howard Lake | 27 October 2000 | News

A Harvard University study reports more young people prefer to volunteer locally than to vote. The study, reported by VolunteerMatch’s October Volunteer Newsletter, found that “85% of people between the ages of 18 and 24 preferred volunteering in their communities to voting for political candidates.”

VolunteerMatch concluded that “this report states that young people feel they are making a greater difference in their community by volunteering than by voting.”

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