We are now living with the repercussions of our citizens having low media literacy (everything is “fake news”) and not being able to solve problems that impact us all collectively (e.g., climate change, living wages, and food scarcity). Civics education scholar Meira Levinson calls our current and intentional lack of educating our youth with the skills and the knowledge to be a part of democracy, the “civic empowerment gap.”6 There is a civic empowerment gap because the rich have all the political influence and civics education is no longer a space that teaches youth how to petition, protest,
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