It’s tough to be a teen in the job market.From figuring out the balance between school, work, and family to trying out professional etiquette for the first time, Youth Radio explored how young people get the skills they need to hold onto the jobs they want.
We’Ced discussed the importance of food assistance programs in their own lives, and how they foresee the change affecting their families.
It turns out, growing up isn’t something you can always do alone.
I’ve been working for my grandpa this summer fixing washers and dryers, lifting heavy machines, and breaking my back doing it.
I didn’t even know the meaning of the word flunk, I showed up at a 5th grade class and they told me I was still in the 4th grade.
The online video sharing site YouTube is this generation’s MTV. Artists like Gotye and Psy have found mainstream success when their videos go viral. Yet the site is dominated by amateurs covering other people’s songs – from toddlers chirping The Beatles to teens tackling Led Zeppelin.
Do young people even think about retirement? That’s what we asked Youth Radio’s Asha Richardson, 21, Sayre Quevedo, 20, and Ashley Williams, 18.
The unanimous answer: Are you kidding?!
Silicon Valley may be the financial center of the tech industry, but lately San Francisco is earning a reputation as the heart and soul of it. Tech workers who don’t want to live in the Valley’s sprawling suburbs have migrated northward. And hundreds of tech-related businesses have set up shop in San Francisco too. But the culture of tech that’s taking hold in the city hasn’t come without controversy.
Over 130 cars full of Oakland, Calif. residents lined up as early as 6 a.m. this past Saturday outside of Saint Benedict’s church to get rid of their guns in exchange for $200 cash.
