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Young and educated: the life of young Italian immigrants in search for work. Italy is losing its best and brightest to a decade of high youth unemployment. A series of video features will be produced on young italian immigrants that will shed light on their motivations and reasons for leaving.

Emanuela Campanella, GroundTruth fellowship finalist

Learn more about our fellowship on youth unemployment, and send us your feedback on this proposal.

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Unwilling to be marginalized, young people in Detroit fight to remake their communities – and their futures – even as the city itself struggles to survive.

Anna Clark @annaleighclark, and Jordan Fletcher @fletchjordan, GroundTruth fellowship finalists

Learn more about our fellowship on youth unemployment, and send us your feedback on this proposal.

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A short video piece on the young generation's struggle with unemployment and lack of opportunity on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The piece will follow several Lakota youth as they work to create a future for themselves in the face of extreme poverty, isolation, and pervasive generational trauma.

Molly Ferrill and Johnny Wu, GroundTruth fellowship finalists

Learn more about our fellowship on youth unemployment, and send us your feedback on this proposal.

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This project explores how a small Egyptian village in the Nile Delta has transformed itself from a traditional, agriculturally dependent economy to a thriving mini metropolis through trade in Chinese-made products.

Laura El-Tantawy @lauraeltantawy, GroundTruth fellowship finalist

Learn more about our fellowship on youth unemployment, and send us your feedback on this proposal.

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This project explores what youth unemployment means for traditionally blue-collar communities in today’s United States. Through multimedia and written word portraits, it will tell the stories of 6 young unemployed men in towns that have felt the full force of America’s industrial decline: Gary, IN, Youngstown, OH, and Buffalo, NY.

Eleanor Stanford @elucylinnet and Saila Huusko @sailajohanna, GroundTruth fellowship finalists

Learn more about our fellowship on youth unemployment, and send us your feedback on this proposal.

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Throughout the 20th century, squatting has been a form of civil disobedience for young Spaniards. After the economic crash, unemployed Spaniards are turning to squatting out of necessity, forming new, self-reliant communities in unoccupied apartment complexes and uncultivated farmland across the country.

Carter McCall and Mika Chance, GroundTruth fellowship finalists

Learn more about our fellowship on youth unemployment, and send us your feedback on this proposal.

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I will examine how the Philippines' rising economy is leaving behind millions of its unemployed youth by failing to support their technologically driven endeavors. This project will uncover how the most digitally engaged group on the planet is raising issue and innovation through social media.

Coleen Jose @coleenjose, GroundTruth fellowship finalist

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Geração nem-nem – "generation neither-nor" – is growing. One in five young Brazilians neither attend school nor work. In Rio de Janeiro's favelas, that number rises to 34%. They're losing faith in their country: “Imagina na Copa,” locals say – imagine how much worse it'll be during the World Cup.

Corinne Chin @corinnechin, and Fabiano Leal @fabianohtl, GroundTruth fellowship finalists

Learn more about our fellowship on youth unemployment, and send us your feedback on this proposal.