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The speech bears repeating.
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Alex Amend
Underemployment, the economic measure combining the percentage of unemployed workers with the percentage of part-timers desirious of full-time work, is something that most of us (but politicans in particular) generally ignore.
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Elon Green
BOSTON - Citing clear evidence that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is failing to provide low-income residents with a legally-mandated opportunity to register to vote, attorneys from Demos, Project Vote, and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Association sent a pre
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Rising levels of student debt and its long-term harm on recent graduates has received considerable news coverage, especially given recent activism by students against this alarming trend.
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Viany Orozco
Youth leaders and policy experts cited rising costs in education, health care, child care, and housing as key issues for winning the young vote in 2012.
In the media
Adrianna McGinley
Wisconsin's restrictive voter ID law functions like a de facto poll tax for over 175,000 older Wisconsinites who lack a government-issued photo ID.
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Adam Lioz
Hypocrisy is nothing new in politics, but it still can be jolting in its most brazen forms. Exhibit A this week is opposition to an expanded and extended payroll tax cut. There has rarely been a tax cut proposal that conservatives in Congress didn't love -- except, suddenly, this one. Critics of the
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David Callahan
Programs like Head Start do not make money contingent on results -- Yana Paskova for The New York Times I confess there was something delicious in last Friday’s news that Republ
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Michael Lipsky
When people talk about energy independence, they are often referring to the U.S. not having to rely on other countries to provide our energy supply. Here’s what energy independence should mean: individual freedom from big corporations and price manipulation.
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J. Mijin Cha
Young Invincibles and Demos partnered to complete The State Of Young America report, the first comprehensive look at the economic challenges facing young adults since the Great Recession.  In addition, we conducted a groundbreaking poll with Lake Research Partners and Bellwether Research &
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Young Invincibles