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Despite its relative diversity, HBO's “Industry” is peppered with casual instances of sexism, racism, and classism.
The American labor movement has been reinvigorated in recent years, with teacher-led Red for Ed strikes, the General Motors walkout, the Fight for $15’s push to raise the minimum wage. Sixty-seven per cent of young people 18 - 34 approve of unions.
As part of Vogue's #TeenVote2020 project, 12 young people will be its sounding board for all things related to the presidential campaign.
Class politics is reemerging in response to the huge inequality caused by the 2008 crash.
We put up with companies treating us poorly because we don’t see another option. We don’t quit. We internalize that we’re not striving hard enough. And we get a second gig.
With the bleak future millennials are facing, it must be asked: Will the cultural capital of middle classness retain the same meaning as the middle class in America continues to erode? Or will class culture and consciousness evolve?
An interview with Malcolm Harris, author of Kids These Days
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Lewis Black explains why congressional Republicans will never be able to fix America's health care system and offers some grim advice to healthy uninsured millennials.
Protesters at Rep. Ryan's office denounced Trump as a consequence of the system, not an aberration. The occupation launches a "bold millennial-run campaign to demand racist Republicans and Wall Street Democrats disown the politics of racism and greed."
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