Learn about how the global economic crisis lead to resistance the spread throughout the globe.

When people in New York City held a protest on Wall Street in September, they decided to stay there. The protesters wanted to let people know that just one percent of people in the country have far too much wealth and power over the lives of everybody else.

While few can resist a Hershey chocolate bar, the bitter truth is that Hershey takes advantage of foreign student workers and probably uses kids to harvest its cocoa. Read this story to learn more and find out what youth are doing about it.

Can you name this early 20th-century labor activist?

This year, tens of thousands of people marched in May Day rallies across the United States to demand immigrants’ and workers’ rights. IndyKids asked these kids why they joined a rally in their city.

Students and workers across Europe are protesting large cuts to spending on education, as well as decreases in pensions and salaries.

3.5 million people have taken part in massive strikes to protest government plans to increase the early retirement age from 60 to 62, and full retirement from 65 to 67.

The unemployment rate for youth ages 16 to 24 went up to 19.1 percent in July, 2010.

A coal mine explosion in West Virgina kills 29 miners and leaves many wondering about the safety of mining.

A group of 20 of the world’s largest economies (the G-20) is meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in September.