Young America

2019

•  Study: Young adults spend six hours on phones each day
• The cost of being a Millennial
• The child play deficit
• Segregation in American schools
• Youth delaying marriage and children
• Millennials falling out of middle class
• More than half (51 percent) of young people in America do not have a steady romantic partner, 
• Fifty-five percent of voters between the ages of 18 and 34 supported universal basic income as did 53 percent of respondents between 35 and 49. Voters older than 65 were overwhelmingly against the proposal with only 21 percent supporting it. Only 38 percent of respondents between the ages of 50 and 64 favored giving a monthly minimum income.
•  Millennials and Gen Z will make up 37% of 2020 electorate

2018

• Among problems, teens list anxiety and depression ahead of bullying
• How Milennials compare with earlier generations
• Survey: 91% of Millennials use cellphone while driving
• Fed study: Why Millennials are spending less
• Studies: A third of college students lack adequate food
• The stunning cost explosion of going to college
• Young having less sex
• College mental health problems growing
• The young turn left
• Students abandoning humanities majors
• Young turning on capitalism
• What gets young people out to vote
• The little noted youth revolution
•  Why young Americans don't fight back more
• Millennials poor tippers
• Poll finds Millennials favorable towards socialism
• Moving towards younger voting
• Millennials blame boomers for our problems
• To the young people from an elder who never gave up
• The young have done it before
• Dealing with teenage anger
• Old enough to fight our wars, but not to drink?
• Young relying on streaming services over cable TV
• Biggest union gains last year were in younger workers

2017

• Young losing interest in freedom
• More evidence of a generational shift
• Young men spending several hours weekly on video games
• How to reframe our college system
• How the young can save us
• Far fewer teens getting drivers' licenses

ESSAYS BY SAM SMITH

• Skull & Bones
• An apology to younger Americans
• Of ghost dances and the young 
• School 'reform' is about class, not classrooms
•  What's behind the assault on public education?
•  Personal to the Los Angeles Teachers Union
•  Graduation speech
•  Back to school
•  Premature aging
  

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Provocative thinking and the American university seem never to have got on well together -- V. L. Parrington

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. - John Ciardi