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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
John Leicester

France’s youth are outnumbered. Their protests are testing who gets heard

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High schoolers who have protested for weeks in France about underfunded schools and uncertain futures complain that it's a frustrating struggle to make themselves heard.

Demographically, it is true that young people in aging societies — which include France but also the United States and others — no longer have the same weight of numbers that helped their parents and grandparents make their mark when they were young.

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