Even the Gipper thought the rich should pay their fair share.
Youth
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Fight Smoke with Fire
Why taking on Big Tobacco in the name of children’s health is a winning issue for Democrats.
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Social Change One on One: The New Mentoring Movement
The evidence is in: Mentoring kids from single-parent families has dramatic benefits. So why aren’t we doing more of it?
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Children’s Crusade
They’re at it again — conservatives are masquerading as the patrons of the young. Before you buy it, think carefully about how much kids and young adults depend upon activist government.
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The Economics of Despair
Young adults today earn half of what they would have made 20 years ago. Herewith an explanation, and a prescription, by three labor economists.
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Distancing Dad
“Would you tell your wife to pack your son an extra pair of shoes tomorrow?”
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State of the Debate: The Sale of a Generation
Generation X is a hot marketing concept, used as a hook to sell everything from condoms to cars. Can right-wingers use it to sell their ideas?
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A Lost Political Generation?
Meet the twenty-something generation: socially idealistic, politically cynical, economically worried, and longing for a leader worthy of respect.
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Gangs in the Post-Industrial Ghetto
Though hardly a new phenomenon, gangs of poor youth are once again in the news and movies. There is one new factor: the vanishing prospect of industrial jobs that lead out of poverty.
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Can Democracy Save Chicago’s Schools?
With much fanfare, Chicago has moved to decentralize control of what some have called the worst public school system in America. But reform has been financially and politically crippled from the start.