Young people are volunteering in record numbers—so why are they so politically disengaged? In January 2004, Wisconsin college students joined U.S. Representatives Tammy Baldwin and Mark Green to discuss the disconnect between service and politics. Students noted that, for example, working in a soup kitchen prepared them for service work, but it did not prepare them to advocate for policies to decrease homelessness. Students need more ways, in school and out, to engage in realistic political exercises and experience partisanship without advancing one side or the other. These and other findings appear in the CIRCLE Working Paper 27 "From the Horse's Mouth: A Dialogue Between Politicians and College Students."

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