This would allow a student under age 16 to continue working despite poor academic standing like chronic absenteeism or tardiness, or disciplinary issues.
The proposal amounts to a loosening of child labor restrictions, Kuhnen said, arguing that would place the state’s children at risk...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/18/the-anti-war-crack-in-magas-youth-base-00926619
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/04/young-voters-midterms-trump-00905296
Still, that frustration hasn't led to disengagement for Koenig. He waited for hours to see El-Sayed. He described the campaign as different from what he's used to seeing, something more like Zohran Mamdani's successful run for mayor in New York City. He wanted that kind of energy in Michigan.
"You're not going to get people out with business as usual," Koenig said.
Karol Molina, an artist who recently moved from New York City, said she had been hunting for a candidate in Mamdani's mold when she arrived in Michigan. She settled on El-Sayed, who is facing U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow in the state's primary.
"We want to be able to live and, like, afford life without constantly scraping by," she said...
Thousands of students across the US have been walking out of their schools to protest ICE in their communities…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/us-high-schoolers-protest-ice
"Over the past few years, the outpouring of political punditry about the MAGA movement's supposed appeal among young voters has largely obscured Donald Trump and his allies' brazen efforts to discourage many of those voters from reaching the polls."
NEW YORK — Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.
They referred to Black people as monkeys and "the watermelon people" and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans' vice chair, used the words "n--ga" and "n--guh," variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as "epic." Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that "everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber."…
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
Diets high in ultra-processed foods have been linked to disruptions in insulin signalling, chronic low-grade inflammation and alterations in the gut microbiome, all of which are mechanisms implicated in cancer development. What we eat affects how our cells grow, how our immune systems function and how our gut bacteria – which help regulate inflammation and immunity – behave. Emulsifiers, additives and artificial sweeteners commonly found in ultra-processed foods have been shown in animal studies to promote intestinal inflammation and tumour growth. Meanwhile, the lack of fibre and protective phytochemicals (health-promoting compounds found in plants) in these foods can alter the gut microbiome needed for the body to function optimally...
With real jobs increasingly hard to come by, some young adults would rather pay to go into an office than be just stuck at home…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdd3ep76g3go
"Here we are cutting off the nation's lifeline to those in crisis," says Paolo del Vecchio, former director of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration's Office of Recovery. "Due to the discriminatory practices of the Trump administration, they're pulling that life preserver away from thousands and thousands of people."…
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/national-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-youth-cuts-rfk-jr-hhs/
