UNDERNEWS: Young America

2022
Almost Four in 10 Can't Afford Their Student Loan Payments

2021

46% of young have negative view of capitalism
Why Are Fewer Young Adults Having Casual Sex?|
Big Rise in U.S. Teens Identifying As Gay, Bisexual
CDC reports a 51% rise in suicide attempts in teenage girls during pandemic compared to a 4% rise in boys
Record 33% Of Young Americans Living With Parents

2020

Percentage of Americans aged 18 to 29 who live with one or both of their parents : 52
Gen Z's religious lives are more complex than 'affiliated' or 'unaffiliated'
US homeless student population reaches 1.5m, the highest in a decade
Nearly 2 In 5 Young Americans Putting Off Marriage Due To Debt

2019

How activism has changed since the 1960s
America has never been at peace for 18 year olds and younger
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
The net worth of the average 18- to 35-year-old has plummeted 34 percent since 1996 (2019)

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

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QUOTES

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

ABOUT THE EDITOR

The Review is edited by Sam Smith, who covered Washington under nine presidents, has edited the Progressive Review and its predecessors since 1964, wrote four books, been published in five anthologies, helped to start five organizations (including the DC Humanities Council and the DC Statehood Party), was a plaintiff in three successful class action suits, served as a Coast Guard officer, and played in jazz bands for four decades.

A truly independent journalist with his feet firmly grounded in the reality of neighborhoods and everyday people. -- Patrick Mazza, Progressive Populist

A truly original voice in American journalism: humorous and plain spoken and filled with common sense -- Jay Walljasper, Utne Reader

Inimitable -- Mother Jones Magazine

Sam's a cynical cat -- Marion Barry

Sam's one of the few independent voices left. The press today is either extreme or special interest or else just establishment, an extension of the corporate spirit -- Eugene McCarthy,

One of a small group of whites with whom many blacks would trust their political lives - Chuck Stone, Washingtonian.

A reputation for wit, intelligence and anger. -- Claude Lewis, Chicago Tribune

Smith is an island of reason and information in a sea of narcissistic blather. -- City Paper, Washington

Whatever the debate, the Review's sharp critiques encourage us to look out our window, notice and act upon what we see, and also to look further -- to the rest of the country and globe -- to see how the organized big world interacts with our more spontaneous small worlds. - Utne Reader

ABOUT THE REVIEW

Regularly ahead of the curve, the Review has opposed federal drug policy for nearly 50 years, was a lonely media voice against the massive freeways planned for Washington, was an early advocate of bikeways and light rail, and helped spur the creation of the DC Statehood Party and the national Green Party,

In November 1990 it devoted an entire issue to the ecologically sound city and how to develop it. The article was republished widely.

Even before Clinton's nomination we exposed Arkansas political scandals that would later become major issues. .

We reported on NSA monitoring of U.S. phone calls in the 1990s, years before it became a major media story.

In 2003 editor Sam Smith wrote an article for Harper's comprised entirely of falsehoods about Iraq by Bush administration officials.

The Review started a web edition in 1995 when there were only 27,000 web sites worldwide. Today there are over 170 million active sites.

In 1987 we ran an article on AIDS. It was the first year that more than 1,000 men died of the disease.

In the 1980s, Thomas S Martin predicted in the Review that "Yugoslavia will eventually break up" and that "a challenge to the centralized soviet state" would occur as a result of devolutionary trends. Both happened.

In the 1970s we published a first person account of a then illegal abortion.

In 1971 we published our first article in support of single payer universal health care

In 1970, we ran a two part series on gay liberation.

in 1965 we called for the end of the draft.

In the 1960s we proposed community policing

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