Several authors who are as young as the people they write about have portrayed people in their 20s and 30s as facing an impossible financial situation ahead.

NPR: Recent College Grads Talk about Money Management

Payback WE DUBBED THEM the "idea moguls" last fall -- the bright young people who generate the ideas and write the scripts for movies and TV shows (Sept.21, 1998).

FORBES: Fillow-Through

Southwark Council's gang intervention team relocated him away from south London and commissioned him to write a report on the reasons young people like him get involved with gangs.

BBC: Pulling gang members back from the brink

Africa is now experiencing tremendous growth, but numerous young people have not had the opportunity to go to school or to learn how to read and write.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

"I just think it's a matter of removing the stigma of having a 'problem, ' which is sort of already happening, " said Yeager, who said he didn't write his essay as part of a mission to spread the word about drinking and young people but is thrilled if his story helps raise awareness.

CNN: Binge drinking 101: Learning to curb the college trend

There are today 250 million children of primary school age who cannot read or write, and some 71 million teenagers who are out of secondary school. 200 million young people in developing countries have not completed primary school.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES