Mike Males | Oct 2022 |\u00a0Low-cost, debt-free college was for us, not you, older opponents of student loan forgiveness tell younger generations<\/p>\n
Education Cutbacks, Student Debt: The Center of the Real Generation War<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Mike Males | Feb 2014 |The defunding of education and skyrocketing student debt so that older, wealthier Americans can enrich themselves with tax cuts is a true “generation war.”<\/p>\n Why have crime, violence, gun deaths, pregnancy, etc., plummeted among America\u2019s young people?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Mike Males | 2013 |\u00a0Against all obstacles imposed by their elders, today\u2019s youth are our best educated and behaved generation ever<\/p>\n Mike Males | April 2006 |<\/p>\n The unconscionable scare campaign vilifying teen drivers rarely receives objective media treatment, but Fox News’ recent (March 17, 2011) report<\/a> by Garrett Tenney on the misguided Safe Teen and Novice Driver Protection Act (STANDUP) bill provides both sides. In one of YF’s most important studies<\/a>, we show that poverty is a much bigger factor than young age in what we call “teenage driving risk”\u2014in fact, where middle-aged drivers suffer poverty levels similar to those of teens and young adults, middle-agers are just as “risky” drivers. Worse, graduated drivers<\/a> license laws’ arbitrary restrictions on 16-year-olds have been linked to sharply higher death rates among teen drivers in California.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EDUCATION Why College Costs So Damn Much These Days\u00a0 Mike Males | Oct 2022 |\u00a0Low-cost, debt-free college was for us, not you, older opponents of student loan forgiveness tell younger generations Education Cutbacks, Student Debt: The Center of the Real Generation War Mike Males | Feb 2014 |The defunding of education and skyrocketing student debt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-290","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160911,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions\/160911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"nochildleftbehind\"](\"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/nochildleftbehind.jpg\")
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\nThe unconscionable scare campaign vilifying teen drivers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n