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Chet Susslin/National Journal What Is It Like to Be a Millennial in Congress?
The generation dealing the most with the changing nature of the United States is starting to shape politics.
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National Journal What It's Like to Be a Millennial in Congress
Tulsi Gabbard and Aaron Schock talk to National Journal about the challenges.
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National Journal Where Do Minority-Owned Businesses Flourish in the U.S.?
People of color already own a majority of local businesses in seven U.S. metro areas.
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National Journal Millennial Entrepreneurs: 'Why Not Me?'
With employment in traditional career fields more uncertain and barriers to launching businesses lowered, many millennials look to work for themselves.
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National Journal Does Your STEM Degree Have a Shelf Life?
Americans pursuing science, tech, engineering, and math careers for career stability and higher pay are at risk of being pushed out of their fields in favor of younger workers.
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National Journal Want Women to Earn More? Train Them for Manufacturing
One way to boost earnings of single, low-income women is to urge them to seek out jobs in skilled trades instead of retail and service gigs.
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National Journal Rubio: Here's How to Make College Affordable
The most pressing challenges outlined at a Next America event: Delivering higher ed that equips Americans — many first-generation collegians — to work in the new economy.
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National Journal Has Marco Rubio Smoked Pot?
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National Journal The Government's $11 Billion Jobs Program May Not Work
The federal government has spent billions since the start of the Great Recession on a single job-training program, but a new report shows there's not enough data to know if it helps out-of-luck workers.
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National Journal Support Yourself and a Kid on $7,600 a Year?
That's the financial reality for 20 million Americans who live in deep poverty, an Urban Institute report indicates.
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National Journal Retire on $120 Grand? How About $30K?
Beware the "severity of the retirement racial divide": Households of color approaching their golden years have socked away on average only $30,000 — about a quarter of what white households have banked.
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National Journal A Preschool Where Kids Get a Leg Up
Successful Curiosity Corner preschool curriculum drives results and confidence — so much that ESL kids use "deciduous" in a sentence.
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University of Kent/Flickr Minorities Are More Likely to Believe Education Will Help Their Careers
White people, on the other hand, tend to be skeptical about the value of more school or training.
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National Journal Skillfully Climbing the Ladder
When it comes to education or skills training, blacks and Hispanics are most likely to believe that more learning will boost their careers and livelihoods.
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AP How Washington Ruined Governors
They used to care more about problem-solving than ideology. Now state capitals increasingly imitate the national parties.
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AP The Great Party Paradox
A year of surveys shows that Americans don't line up consistently behind Republicans or Democrats -- but like a little of each.
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National Journal Effects of Federal Budget Cuts on the Latino Community
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National Journal How the Sequester Will Affect Communities of Color
Panel Discussion: Racial and ethnic minorities will be disproportionately affected by the budget cuts that begin Friday.
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National Journal Pontifical Stats: U.S. Catholics, Spanish-Speakers, and Africans
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National Journal How California's Budget Crisis Colors Minorities' College Hopes
Stakes are high for blacks and Latinos, who graduate at lower rates and take on more debt than their white and Asian-American peers.
