The Young and the Wageless: Too Disaffected to Vote?
Once in love with Obama, young voters are now thinking twice
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A year after graduating from college, 23-year-old Alison Foster is living with her parents in Arlington, Va., and getting by on a part-time, temporary job. Along with a degree in environmental sciences from the University of Vermont, her résumé includes prestigious internships with a member of Congress and the National Park Service, and yet no offers have come. “I didn’t anticipate that a year out I would be barely making any money at all,” she says.