Code, publicly-available data, and figures for this post are available on this Github repository. Significant effort in the social sciences is spent on properly measuring economic well-being. Statistics covering income| youngamericans.berkeley.edu
Easy as Clicking ‘Yes’: How Automatic Voter Registration is Powering Up Youth Votes | youngamericans.berkeley.edu
Issue Brief| Berkeley Initiative for Young Americans
The sustainability of the state’s public education system is questioned in a new report from the Berkeley Institute for Young Americans. Part of the California 100 initiative, administered by the Goldman School of Public Policy, the report finds that long-term structural challenges in the state’s finance system, combined with flaws in education governance, threaten the long-term outlook of public education...| Berkeley Initiative for Young Americans
Working Paper Series| Berkeley Institute for Young Americans
Working Paper Series| Berkeley Initiative for Young Americans
This working paper examines the relationship between state-level implementation of Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) policies and the voting turnout of young voters (aged 18-24) in United States elections, primarily analyzing data for elections between 2010 and 2022.| Berkeley Institute for Young Americans
Episode 512: Talking Agriculture, Drought, and Resilience | Berkeley Initiative for Young Americans
Blog Post| Berkeley Institute for Young Americans
The social unrest of the 2020 election year was a historic flashpoint in the visibility of police violence. Successive nationally publicized police killings of Black citizens—from the murder of Breona Taylor to the murder of George Floyd—culminated in America’s largest protest mobilization led by the Movement for Black Lives [...]| Berkeley Initiative for Young Americans
Young Adults and the Decline of Homeownership in California | youngamericans.berkeley.edu
Young Adults and the Decline of Homeownership in California | youngamericans.berkeley.edu
Young Adults and the Decline of Homeownership in California | youngamericans.berkeley.edu
Easy as Clicking ‘Yes’: How Automatic Voter Registration is Powering Up Youth Votes | youngamericans.berkeley.edu
Easy as Clicking ‘Yes’: How Automatic Voter Registration is Powering Up Youth Votes | youngamericans.berkeley.edu
Voters Under 35 Have A Lot At Stake in November. Here’s What They’re Thinking About | youngamericans.berkeley.edu
Easy as Clicking ‘Yes’: How Automatic Voter Registration is Powering Up Youth Votes | youngamericans.berkeley.edu
Is Our Wealth Data Right About Young Adults? | youngamericans.berkeley.edu
Generational Values and Political Participation in Recent U.S. Elections | youngamericans.berkeley.edu
Easy as Clicking ‘Yes’: How Automatic Voter Registration is Powering Up Youth Votes | youngamericans.berkeley.edu
2024 Election Vibe Check: Interviews with the Next Generation of Leaders in American Politics| Berkeley Institute for Young Americans
Working Paper Series| Berkeley Institute for Young Americans
Working Paper Series| Berkeley Initiative for Young Americans
Working Paper Series| Berkeley Initiative for Young Americans
Working Paper Series| Berkeley Initiative for Young Americans
2024 Election| Berkeley Institute for Young Americans
Working Paper Series| Berkeley Institute for Young Americans
Working Paper Series| Berkeley Institute for Young Americans
2024 Election Vibe Check: Interviews with the Next Generation of Leaders in American Politics| Berkeley Institute for Young Americans
Assessing Changes in the Ideological Identity of Young Women and Men using the CCES| Berkeley Initiative for Young Americans
Younger generations worldwide are facing new and unprecedented risks. And while it’s become commonplace for critics to point the finger back at them, blaming younger generations for their own problems – Young people are unmotivated! They’re entitled and narcissistic! – these narratives are a harmful distraction from the global generational crisis hiding in plain sight: Younger people coming of age across the world today are witnessing the collapse of the globalization era and bearing ...| Berkeley Initiative for Young Americans
For over 50 years, the minimum voting age in the U.S. has been 18 years old for national, state, and most local elections. Yet in recent years, researchers, policymakers, and youth advocates across the U.S. and around the world have questioned whether the voting age should be lowered to engage more youth in the democratic process. The intent of this policy report is to inform the debate to lower the voting age in California to 17 for all elections (local, state, and national) as proposed by S...| Berkeley Initiative for Young Americans
