The focus during the unemployment crisis has been largely on those who have lost their jobs, but students and first-time job seekers have been hit hard as well.  Viany Orozco of Demos points out that for those who enter the workforce for the first time during a recession, the wage hit can last for many years down the road.

Orozco joins guest host Ed Ott, a longtime labor activist, and Tahir Duckett of the AFL-CIO's Working America to talk about youth unemployment, why it matters, and how it connects to the student activism springing up around the country.

Students across California--and the country--held protests on March 4 against budget cuts that are cutting courses and hiking tuition at state universities. In these videos from New America Media, students and protesters speak out about the state's overspending on war and prisons and underspending on education.

Almost every state is suffering some sort of budget crisis after last year's financial collapse, and yet jobs programs largely come through the states. Green jobs have been the solution on everyone's lips, but where are they right now? And what about state subsidies for corporations that provide jobs with lousy pay and working conditions?

Carrie Brunk, executive director of  New York Jobs With Justice, joins Ed Ott in the studio to talk about bailouts, corporate subsidies, and why those aren't helping working people on the ground.

Brave New Films points out Rush Limbaugh's hypocrisy, and you can join their group on Facebook to help fight right-wing smears.

Brandon Jourdan and David Martinez were both held in jail for over 20 hours after filming this footage from a student protest in Oakland on March 4, where students took over an exit ramp on the highway before being rounded up by baton-wielding riot police.

Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, tells the Huffington Post Investigative Fund about waste of reconstruction funds in Afghanistan similar to that in Iraq--some $51 billion has been allocated to rebuild and stabilize, but tracking those funds proves next to impossible.

Finally, in this latest clip from our friends at the Tactical Technology Collective, we see how personal stories can be used to reach people about issues they may not have been concerned about before.