The New York City Bar Association is working to do its part to help boost civic education among the public to encourage greater participate in the democratic process.
The legal organization is launching a “Civic Education Task Force” aimed at helping the public better understand how their government works for them on every level, and the importance of voting toward enduring that federal, state and local governments are fair, just and working for the people they represent.
The task force aims to bring together lawyers and other members of the legal community to develop ways to boost civic education at a time when voter participation, and knowledge of government functions, is sorely lacking. These figures, the city bar contends, reflects America’s ongoing crisis with voter apathy. The United States ranked 31st among 49 nations around the world in voter turnout during national elections held in 2020.
Judge Katharine H. Parker and Dawn Smalls have been named co-chairs of the Civic Education Task Force, which aims to serve as a “hub for best practices and a clearinghouse for opportunities for the legal community to contribute to civic literacy,” as Parker described.
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