{"id":56234,"date":"2014-08-14T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T16:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=56234"},"modified":"2014-08-14T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T16:44:07","slug":"youth-problems-are-big-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/08\/14\/youth-problems-are-big-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth problems are big challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) representative in the Dominican Republic Sonia Vasquez focused on the challenges ahead for the Dominican Republic where 38% of the population (around 3.7 million people) is between 10 and 29 years of age. She said that the segment most affected by unemployment is young people and that 24.4% of teenagers do not graduate from high school.<\/p>\n<p> Vasquez said that despite a slight decrease, the teenage pregnancy rate is still one of the highest in the region.<\/p>\n<p> She said that investment in young people is urgently needed.<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.listindiario.com\/economia-and-negocios\/2014\/8\/13\/333591\/El-38-tiene-entre-diez-y-29-anos-de-edad<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/webdav\/site\/global\/shared\/swp2013\/ADOLESCENT%20PREGNANCY_UNFPA.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) representative in the Dominican Republic Sonia Vasquez focused on the challenges ahead for the Dominican Republic where 38% of the population (around 3.7 million people) is between 10 and 29 years of age. She said that the segment most affected by unemployment is young people and that 24.4% of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/08\/14\/youth-problems-are-big-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[233,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}