Do Youth Count on the Left?

[9] Audio and Transcript: http://mediamatters.org/research/200807170005

[10] Black In America 2, "Principal's tough love, high expectations gets kids into college," CNN.com (July 22, 2009). Online: click here

[11] For incandescent, excoriating analysis, see Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co., 2009).