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(KATHLEEN MALONE-VAN DYKE/The Associated Press) Catherine Devine, 22, reads instant messages on her laptop screen at her home in Kings Park, N.Y., Monday, Sept. 26, 2011. Devine had her first brush with an online bully in seventh grade, before she’d even ventured onto the Internet. A new Associated Press-MTV poll of youth in their teens and early 20s finds that most of them _ 56 percent _ have been the target of some type of online taunting, harassment or bullying, a significant increase over just two years ago.

Poll: Young people say online meanness pervasive

Connie Cass, Stacy A. Anderson The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 7:40am

WASHINGTON — Catherine Devine had her first brush with an online bully in seventh grade, before she’d even ventured onto the Internet. Someone set up the screen name “devinegirl” and, posing as Catherine, sent her classmates instant messages full of trashy talk and lies. “They were making things up about me, and I was the most innocent 12-year-old ever,” Devine remembers. “I hadn’t even kissed anybody yet.”

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(MATT ROURKE/The Associated Press) Setrag Shahikian works on a computer at Marple Newtown High School in Newtown Square, Pa., in March. Economic hardships have been particularly great for recent high school graduates who do not get college degrees, a recent Associated-Press-Viacom poll finds.

High and dry: High school education doesn't cut it, poll shows

Connie Cass, Stacy A. Anderson, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, April 21, 2011 - 11:10pm

WASHINGTON -- The nation's economic upheaval has been especially hard on young people trying to start their working lives with a high school education or less. Only about a third are working full-time, compared with two-thirds of recent college grads, according to an Associated Press-Viacom poll.

Most say money was a major reason they bypassed college, and the vast majority aspire to more education someday.

Christopher Cadaret's been fixing TVs and stereos for fun since he was 10 years old and thinks he'd like to work in electronics or auto repair. But four months after he dropped out of high school, he hasn't found any kind of job.

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