#5DollarChallenge: We Mapped Out The Best Meals You Can Buy For Five Bucks Or Less
Young people want meals that are quick — and also fresh and healthy and interesting. But can they get all…
Teresa Chin
Consumers Crave Fast Food With Conscience: But What’s The Business Model?
Today, young adults say they want a new kind of fast food: fresh, healthy and, if possible, connected to community. But actually delivering on what makes consumers happy — it’s something the whole on-demand food industry is still figuring out.
From Taco Emojis to Pancakes On Fleek: Fast Food Brands Target Teens On Social Media
Here are two obvious statements: One, Teenagers love fast food. Two, they hate listening to adults. And that’s a real problem if you’re a modern fast food company these days.
Fast Food Scramble
In our new series, Fast Food Scramble, Youth Radio reporters partnered with NPR’s Sonari Glinton to capture stories about today’s fast food market.
Young Adults Seeking Public Housing? Good Luck.
It’s normal for millennials to still live at home these days. But what if you’re a millennial who doesn’t have…
Can You be a Patriot Without Voting?
My dad grew up in the Reagan era, and he worked hard to raise my brother and I with the same brand of patriotism. He played us movies like Red Dawn, Rocky 4, and Top Gun — any film that featured Americans beating Russians at something.
Generation Lockdown: Growing Up In The Shadow of Gun Violence
Gun violence is in the national spotlight again in the wake of a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California yesterday. While mass shootings make up most of the headlines, Youth Radio’s Nila Venkat looks at the many other gun incidents fly under the national radar.
Trans Teen Considers Future Fertility
Most healthy 18-year-olds out there don’t have to make major decisions about their future fertility. But as a transgender male about to start hormone therapy, Youth Radio’s Cole Carman found himself in that exact position. Cole shares his story, as one of the first transmale teens in the country to freeze his eggs pre-transition.
Inside Berkeley High’s Student Walkout
On Thursday, November 5th, hundreds of high school students at Berkeley High walked out of their classes in response to a lynching threat found on a school computer. Youth Radio’s Natalie Bettendorf, an editor with the Berkeley High Jacket, spoke with KPFA’s Dennis Bernstein about the incident.