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New Mexico high schoolers recently took over the state Capitol to practice what they learned about how the legislative process works. But participants in the National Hispanic Institute’s youth legislative session also gained more than just a civics lesson — they walked away with renewed self-confidence.

With summer just around the corner, teens in Bernalillo County may be looking for work and the county itself is hoping to recruit them at its youth job fair Saturday, April 29.

More than 400 young people, most of them middle and high school students, gathered at the farmers' market in Santa Fe for training in the legislative process. They heard from Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver and democracy advocates before marching through the streets, holding banners, chanting and waving at motorists honking horns.

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