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Nowadays, the auto industry produces “entry-level” cars that are going for double what they cost 25 years ago, leaving young buyers struggling to enter the market while luxury and high-performance brands continue to thrive
Many popular video games now incorporate features similar to betting and online gambling, which is significantly increasing the risk of addiction and financial harm for young players. Addiction to video games and online gaming is one of the leading causes of mental health issues among adolescents today, ranking above anorexia and substance abuse.
Homeownership for young people is becoming less attainable across the globe, in the face of record high home prices, cost of living crises and high debt. The economic shift is changing the very nature of society.
Young people have been living in a world of escalating drama for the past five years, since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s also a challenge for parents. The seven-point plan of a leading researcher can help navigate these unprecedented times.
For years there has been a visible increase in the percentage of so-called “nesters,” people entering adulthood who do not move out of their family homes. But is the explanation for this problem really limited to the lack of housing availability or the economy more broadly? Or are they some other factors at play?
While the traditional most promising path to well-compensated employment included a college diploma followed by a corporate job, an increasing number of young people are instead looking to the trades for better work-life balance, increased compensation and a break from the patterns set by their parents.
Many young Vietnamese pay huge sums to get a training position in Germany. Only very few of them have any idea what they are getting themselves into. It’s a troubling twist to the eternal struggles of the immigrant journey.
Over the past five years, tuk-tuk prices have soared because of a government ban on importing the vehicle, and the inflation waves that rocked the Arab world’s most populous country. But tuk-tuks are not only a preferred system of transport, they are also a source of income for a large part of the Egyptian population — and the price hikes are crushing many young people’s dreams.
As Poland considers lowering the voting age to 16, what can other countries’ experiences with reducing the voting age teach us about political trends and ralling young constituents?
Unemployment, stress in the workplace, economic difficulties: more and more young Chinese graduates are flocking to monasteries to find “another school of life.”
Small, mobile and organized groups of young people full of violence and hatred for the police: an emerging movement a far cry from the “banlieues” riots in 2005.
In the aftermath of the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by the morality police mid-September for not wearing her hijab properly, many Iranians have taken the streets in nationwide protests. Independent Egyptian media Mada Masr spoke to one of the protesters.
When the pandemic disrupted livelihoods and supply chains, young urban Mexicans decided to learn to grow food themselves.
Thousands of students and young people were detained during Hong Kong’s democracy protests in 2019. Now with criminal records, many are struggling to re-integrating into a changed society
More and more young and not-so-young people are returning home to live with their parents. A phenomenon which is hard on their aging parents.
TOKYO — Chinese boys and girls are often referred to as “Little emperor” or “Little princess.” They grow up in surroundings with financial means where six adults are catering to their demands: they are the luckiest generation since the founding of modern China. Yet few of them realize that there is an even luckier bunch […]
BEIJING — Before 2000, public space in China dedicated exclusively to young people was basically non-existent. Rock-loving youngsters, for example, had nowhere to go except for a few small, dark bars. Woodstock represented an unattainable dream. But times have changed since then. First the Midi Music Festival, one of China’s largest rock music festivals, was […]
After the nation and world’s attention turned to the plague of Indian gang rapes, a women-only police unit was founded in Bhopal with one central objective. Some say they go too far.
TEL AVIV — A record number of undergraduate students will get their degrees this year. But what awaits them isn’t pretty: job insecurity, bosses who are indifferent to what they studied, a shortage of jobs that match their education and talents, and big debts accumulated during their years at university. All of this suggests that […]
SIDI BOUZID – In town to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Mohamed Bouazizi, who set himself on fire two years ago, Moncef Marzouki and Mustapha Ben Jaffar were greeted with stones and tomatoes. The President of Tunisia and the Head of the National Constituent Assembly had to leave the stage that was set […]