Young Invincibles’ Digital Strategy Manager Jessica Adair discusses key takeaways for millennials to pay attention to from the President Obama’s State of the Union address: They were young and in love in America, and it doesn’t get much better than...
By Fawn Johnson “President Obama wants to provide free tuition at community colleges, a proposal that could benefit as many as 9 million students, according to a White House outline of the plan released Thursday. There is one big caveat in...
By Paul Kendrick “The 114th Congress has an opportunity to fundamentally shift American life. To do so, though, they must overcome cynical calculations that have become too common when it comes to young people and politics. First-time congressional candidate Matt...
By Diane Stafford “College got something of a bad rap during the recession and the “jobless” recovery. Thousands of university graduates were unable to find full-time work in their target careers. They took jobs as baristas, bartenders or other part-time, low-wage...
By Liliana Valenzuela “There is a gap in the educational achievement of young Texans in which Hispanic and African-American students continue to lag behind their white counterparts. The educational disparity often translates into a wage and opportunity divide, according to...
By Liliana Valenzuela “Entre los adultos de Texas, de 25 a 64 años de edad, el 44.89% de los anglosajones tiene un título universitario, 29.24% de los afroamericanos y sólo el 17.65% de los latinos, según datos de la encuesta...
By Charles D. Ellison “…While black male incarceration rates dipped slightly from 2000 to 2010, brothers were still six times more likely to find themselves in jail than white men, according to a Pew Research study—with the less educated being...
By Katherine Long “What jobs will be in high demand four years down the road, when today’s college freshmen enter the workforce? A new report released by the advocacy group Young Invincibles outlines broad employment trends, but if you’re looking...
By Anna Dembowski “The price of graduating college with student loans may mean post-college life includes leaky windows, a cockroach-infested apartment, sleeping on the floor and the lack of a washer, dryer and dishwasher. But Bekah (Cvetich) Schouten, a 2012...
By Álvaro Ortiz “Los políticos y las autoridades educativas de Texas deben aumentar la financiación de programas académicos que ofrezcan a más estudiantes de minorías la oportunidad de cursar estudios universitarios, concluye un estudio preparado por Young Invincibles (YI, por sus...