Ana Cristina Pereira
Born in 1975, Ana Cristina Pereira has worked for Público since 1999, mainly writing on social exclusion and human rights issues. In 2009, she published a collection of articles entitled Meninos de Ninguém (Nobody's Children), on children left to fend for themselves.
In the United Kingdom, they call them "the lost generation" – 16 to 25-year-olds entering the working world against a backdrop of economic crisis and recession, who experience major difficulties finding and keeping jobs, even when they are well qualified. Público warns that the phenomenon is also taking hold in Portugal.