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Episode: The Youth Governor: When the Kids Get to Rule the World
Description: Our special guests are documentary writers, directors and brothers Jaron and Matthew Halmy. Their latest production, the documentary The Youth Governor launches on August 26th in theaters and on Amazon.
If kids ran the government and ran for public office, what would that look like? The Youth Governor shows us.
The Youth Governor is a program by the YMCA, run nationwide, in which kids emulate government bodies with literally parallel elected bodies and roles filled by kids.
The film The Youth Governor documents the California youth government and its election of the 72nd Youth Governor. The Youth Governor is the s...