Truthout
Youth
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Young Latin Americans Face Spiral of Unemployment, Poverty
In Latin America, young people are the main link in the chain of poverty leading from one generation to the next.
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On Juvenile Lifer Sentencing, Will Massachusetts Do the Right Thing?
There's a crisis in juvenile justice in Massachusetts.
The Arab Millennials Will Be Back: Three Ways the Youth Rebellions Are Still Shaping the Middle East
Many of the millennial activists who briefly turned the Arab world upside down and provoked so many changes are putting their energies into non-governmental organizations.
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San Francisco’s Youth and LGBTQ Homeless Left with No Answer
What do we teach our youth when we make no effective effort to see that homeless youth are housed?
In a Maryland Jail, Teens Charged as Adults Face Isolation and Neglect
These young people, thought to number in the thousands across the country, are trapped in a kind of purgatoryu2013facing charges in adult court and held in adult facilities.
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Pacific Disability Theatre Group Inspires and Educates
The Rainbow Theatre Group is playing a crucial role in bringing more special-needs children into education.
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Why Koch-Funded “Generation Opportunity” Is a Big Zero for America’s Youth
Some of GenOpp's positions and statements may seem genuine, even logical, though a closer look reveals them to be desperately familiar to a more adult-like right wing playbook.
Henry A. Giroux | Protesting Youth in the Age of Neoliberal Cruelty
The possibility for alliances, unity, and comprehensive understanding of politics among the youth of the world is greater than ever before.
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Sri Lankan Youth Desperate for Change
It has been five years since Sri Lanka's brutal three-decades-long civil conflict came to an end in May 2009, but for the country's youth, true national reconciliation is still …
New Network for Social Justice Unionism Seeks to Change the Labor Movement
Interview with Michelle Gunderson, co-founder of the Network for Social Justice Unionism.