Young America’s Foundation Announces 2016 Extension of Successful Wendy P. McCaw Freedom Lecture Series
RESTON, VA– Young America’s Foundation is pleased to announce the extension of last year’s successful Wendy P. McCaw Freedom Lecture Series. In 2015, the McCaw Series featured headline-making lectures by Speaker Newt Gingrich, Ben Shaprio, Dr.Charles Krauthammer, Steve Forbes, Herman Cain, and many other conservative leaders at schools across America. The series brings prominent conservative […]
Youth Misery Index hits record high, spikes 32% during Obama presidency
The Youth Misery Index (YMI), a figure calculated annually by Young America’s Foundation, spiked to a record high of 109.9 this year, up from 106.5 last January, and 83.5 in 2009 when President Obama took office. The Index is calculated by adding youth unemployment, student loan debt, and national debt (per capita) numbers. On Wednesday, […]
A Tribute to the Iron Lady
by Donal Blaney In June 2004, less than a year after I had set up the Young Britons’ Foundation, I remember hearing that sad news that Ronald Reagan had died. World leaders and ordinary Americans alike wept and eulogized a truly transformative President whose latter years had been ravaged by the cruelty of Alzheimer’s Disease […]
Media Alert: Washington Times Covers Miss America 2011 at High School Conference
The Washington Times By Claire Courchane, National Journalism Center Intern The reigning Miss America, who at 17 was the youngest to win the coveted crown since 1937, has a unique career goal for a pageant winner, an honor even higher than Miss America – president of the United States. Unlike the stereotypical pageant queens who […]
C-SPAN and Others Cover 50th Anniversary of Sharon Statement
This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the Sharon Statement, which officially launched Young Americans for Freedom and the young conservative movement nationwide. Read more in today’s Washington Times, Investors Business Daily, and American Spectator. Read commentary on the anniversary from Wayne Thorburn here. Young America’s Foundation and The Fund for American Studies are co-sponsoring […]
Five Weeks Later and the Ink is Still Flowing!
This week begins Week 6 of the National Journalism Center’s Summer 2010 program, and interns have published nearly 200 articles in the first five weeks! The 38 interns have been furiously reporting at their specific placements, from Human Events and The Washington Times, to Radio America and WUSA Channel 9 in Washington, D.C. Pieces have […]
Featured Speaker: Chris Horner
Chris Horner is a popular campus speaker you can host on campus through Young America’s Foundation. In the last few weeks, he spoke at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and Amherst College. Horner is a best-selling author of books on “global warming” and environmental policy: Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud […]
