Youth

Dean Baker: As long as the wealthy can focus public debate on retirement benefits for ordinary workers, they can keep the focus away from the policies that allow them …

Henry Giroux speaks with Ronald Jackson on issues of neoliberalism, the war on youth, and required cultural changes for a better future.

Early numbers suggest young people comprise a fourth of insurance purchases. The administration is hoping for a big jump to 40 percent.

The shocking story of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who received $2.6 million in kickbacks from the builders and owners of private …

Ted Rall, “Pot”

Students, teachers and parents are building bridges between classrooms on both sides of the miles of Atlantic Ocean that separate them.

A rise in subway fare has Mexican youth in a city-wide transportation protest, taking place in a majority of major train stations.

The Coen brothers' latest movie, “Inside Llewyn Davis,” creates the now-gone world of folk music in the Greenwich Village of the early 1960s, but it totally misses key elements, …

The department has found alarming rates of abuse by staff on youngsters in custody.

Dean Baker: The focus on the young invincibles is largely a distraction. However it is not an altogether harmless distraction.