Youth
NY families demand millionaire tax extension
November 10, 2011Cuomo, who ran on a no-tax pledge, along with the GOP, opposes extension of a tax on millionaires.
Read moreWere college football profits protected at the expense of sexually abused children?
November 10, 2011There is no escaping the charges Joe Paterno, his staff and his superiors including the entire Penn State University Board of Trustees should face.
Read moreCooper Union students fight to keep school tuition free
November 9, 2011The announcement by Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha that his institution may have to charge tuition has caught student, faculty and alumni off guard -but has solidly united them.
Read moreMore elderly are poor; net worth for young people worsens
November 9, 2011The U.S. Census Bureau calculates that nearly twice as many older Americans qualify as poor than had been previously thought. At the same time, net worth disparity between younger and older is at an all-time high.
Read moreYouth march calls for jobs and end to violence
November 7, 2011The young people, mainly high school students who organized the event, marched in front, holding pictures of the 29 youth in New Haven killed by violence this year.
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