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From Tamara Draut at the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy:
It may be hard for primary-fatigued political junkies to believe, but the excitement of this primary season has actually been lost on some voters, specifically, the 45 percent of young people with no college experience. Those are the findings of a study released by CIRCLE in February which found that young people who had gone to college were more than three times as likely to [have] cast a ballot on Super Tuesday: 25% to 7%.
But it’s the college have-nots who have the most at stake in this election, because they have lost the most ground in the generational economic backslide. Today, the typical young male worker with a high school diploma earns 29 percent less than his dad did 30 years ago. And despite the enormous financial gains won by the mass movement of women into the workplace, the typical young woman with a high school diploma earns 6 percent less than her mom did when she was a 20-something.
Young people who’ve never gone to college are now a minority among the under 30 population, making up 45 percent of young people. That’s good news in the sense that more young people are continuing their studies. But it’s bad news in the sense that their struggles are likely to get even less attention than the modest amount paid to this generation’s economic decline as a whole. ...
On May 8 and 9, hundreds of young people will assemble [in Washington, D.C.] to begin the hard work of turning the country around and creating a new social compact. "A Better Deal: Reclaiming Economic Security for A New Generation" is a conference sponsored by Demos, along with nearly two dozen partner organizations.
This evening's Rescue Rangers are ybruti, Shayera, vmcvo2, Wes Opinion, TruthofAngels and joyful, with jennyjem as editor.
Environmental diaries ruled the day, followed by some excellent political discussion, and rounded out by some human rights stories. Two personal narratives with political overtones put the cherry on the cake. Enjoy!
bklynarch gives us all a reason to celebrate the work and thoughts of this prominent climate scientist in Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. James Hansen. (vcmvo2)
If Pat Buchanan really believes that the slaves came over here in cruise ships maybe he should read StormBear’s diary about Black History: Slave Market of Charleston. (Wes Opinion)
What's the upside of global warming? Why, once the ice is gone from Greenland, it will open up whole new regions for oil exploration.
Joern Skov Nielsen, deputy director of Greenland’s Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum, said Thursday that there might be more oil in his country than the entire past production of the North Sea. That would be about 50 billion barrels. Chevron, Exxon Mobil and Husky Energy last year received licenses for exploration, which will be made easier by the melting of Greenland’s ice.
By the time we've burned all the oil in Greenland, Antarctica is bound to be ice-free. Just imagine all the resources we'll find down there!
Please remind the presidential candidate of your choice that changing the sources of energy in the United States isn't a nice option at the end of a long list of "gotta haves." Energy -- the source of which will determine everything from our foreign policy to our economy -- needs to be first.
On May 8 and 9, hundreds of young people will assemble [in Washington, D.C.] to begin the hard work of turning the country around and creating a new social compact. 
