Tell your Reps: We need a rent freeze.
Tell your Reps to enact a national, 90-day rent moratorium to provide economic stability to struggling young people and help keep them safe and healthy in their homes.
The Issues
Tell your Reps: Pause student loan collections during COVID-19 outbreak
Tell your Reps to pause student loan collections as young Americans struggle with the economic fallout of COVID-19.
Tell your Reps: oppose budget cuts to higher ed!
Trump’s FY21 budget request proposes massive cuts to higher education and fails to prioritize students. Urge your reps to reject the budget proposal!
Support the College Affordability Act!
The College Affordability Act would drastically improve our nation’s higher education system.
Youth-led debate!
Sign the petition to call for a youth-led 2020 presidential primary debate, moderated by young Americans and focused on issues that matter to us.
Support the Employer Participation in Repayment Act!
Tell your reps to support the Employer Participation in Repayment Act, which would offer a tax credit to employers who help pay down their employees’ student debt.
Support funding boosts for higher ed programs!
Tell your reps to support the House’s 2020 education funding bill, which includes many necessary funding boosts for federal student aid and higher ed programs!
Oppose Budget Cuts to Student Loan Programs!
Sign the petition to oppose the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to student loan programs included in the 2020 budget proposal.
Tell your reps: Support the Green New Deal!
The Green New Deal is finally here. It provides a detailed plan for the U.S. to swiftly become carbon-neutral, while ensuring a fair & just transition for communities and workers. Tell your reps to support!
No More Shutdowns!
President Trump has announced that he will end the longest shutdown in U.S. history–but only temporarily. The deal Trump signed funds the government for three weeks while lawmakers continue negotiations over his request for funding The Wall. 800,000 federal workers were without pay for 35 days. While those federal workers will ultimately be paid for […]
Dept of Ed: Offer Loan Forgiveness to Former Students of Education Corp of America
Education Corporation of America is the latest in a string of for-profit schools to close, leaving 20,000+ students with mounds of student debt for partially completed degrees and credits that most other schools won’t accept. Let’s make sure the Department of Education grants student debt relief to these former students, as they’re legally required to do under the Borrower Defense Rule.
Support the Green New Deal!
As young people, we will be the ones facing the consequences of a changing climate. We’ve got to harness support for every policy effort that proposes real action to prevent climate change–and the #GreenNewDeal is just that.