This fall, USA TODAY and The New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College partnered to bring America’s Youth Forum 2004 to high schools and colleges nationwide. This exciting civic engagement project was designed to provide voting-age students with the opportunity to research public policy issues of significance to them, and to formulate thought-provoking questions to be asked of the democratic presidential candidates, in a series of live forums at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics.

Under the direction of some of America’s most committed educators, this program brought together over 8,000 students in 40 states to study issues on the minds of young voters. USA TODAY was delivered to participating classrooms two days per week for eight weeks and additional resources were accessed on this website.

The program culminated in two stimulating forums between Governor Howard Dean, Representative Dennis Kucinich, General Wesley Clark and students participating in the program from across the country.

For more details on these live forums, please visit our “About the Forum” page. To access the audio portion of the forum with General Clark, please reference: http://www.nhpr.org/view_summary/1464/.

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