Teenagers Are Changing The World. Let Them Vote.
Young activists are leading global struggles over climate change and civil rights. They deserve to have a say in who runs their government.
Teen Voices in the Fight to Raise the Minimum Wage in Massachusetts
I Have A Future is a local organization mobilizing youth organizers in Massachusetts to advocate for themselves in the fight to raise the state’s minimum wage.
Can Korean Millennials Transform the Country’s Political System?
The next generation of Koreans could take part in a national revival of South Korea and put the ghosts of the 20th century to rest.
How The Assault at Spring Valley High Brutally Demonstrates the ‘School-to-Prison Pipeline’
The assault at Spring Valley High is representative of the U.S.’s disturbing habit of criminalizing black and Latino children.
Severing a Higher Education Lifeline
Ending Perkins loans would block the path to college for hundreds of thousands of students.
Film: The Homestretch
An IPS and Community Cinema [DC] preview screening that follows the struggle and triumph three remarkable homeless teens and explores the broader plight within the larger issues of poverty, race, juvenile justice, immigration, foster care, and LGBTQ rights.
Film: Mabele Na Biso (Our Land)
Congo Week film screening and presentation about humanitarian aid and development in the Congo from a local perspective.
Health Care Access Shouldn’t Require Good Luck
For me, the Affordable Care Act means that when I graduate from college, I won’t have to take a job that I hate to get the health care that I need.
Let’s Give Kids Better Mental Health
In the District of Columbia, youth face particular challenges as disparities in resources and risks vary drastically in just a matter of miles.
Crushing College Dreams
On the very day that student loan debt reached the $1-trillion mark, Senate Republicans blocked a vote to extend the 3.4-percent interest rate on student loans for another year.
The District Has a Youth Unemployment Crisis
DC youth between the ages of 16 to 19 are in crisis. They are experiencing unemployment levels 2.3 times the national average.
Meting out Injustice in Mississippi
Prisoners, some as young as 13, are being brutalized in facilities owned by private companies that exist solely to turn a profit.
The Class of 2012’s Choice
Today’s graduates must change the world if they don’t want to wind up flipping burgers.
Graduating into Debt
Neither a borrower nor a burger flipper be.
A Generation Exhales with Bin Laden’s Death
For young people raised in the shadow of the war on terrorism, the al-Qaeda leader’s death offers a moment of relief, even as the war continues.