young people Articles

Labour's opportunity to shape Brexit, why progressives must deliver for the young, and World Mental Health Day – Progress director Richard Angell has the Last Word It is becoming clearer and clearer that half of the government’s aims for Brexit are incompatible with...

Both Jeremy Corbyn’s personal style and policies spoke to young people and turned them out to vote. Georgia Gould looks at what happened when a section of society wanted to make themselves heard The week after the referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership of the...

In the battle to get young people to the ballot box it is important that the left does not forget that voting alone is not enough. Austerity has radically shrunk the size of our public services, and it is increasingly the case that community and religious groups and...

The report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Is Britain Fairer?, published late last year, drew further attention to the growing problem of youth poverty. While the proportion of older people living in poverty has fallen sharply, this figure has gone in the...