Despite the media's instance to the contrary, young people are not apathetic when it comes to electoral organizing.
Lindsay McCluskey | Posted 05.25.2011
Each election, the United States Student Association (USSA) works to mobilize students nationwide through our electoral action project, commonly known as StudentsVOTE!
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Public universities around the country, struggling with massive budget shortfalls and double-digit tuition increases, have largely gone ignored by the...
Huffington Post | Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011
*UPDATED* Nearly 150,000 votes later, we have a winner: Amanda Litman, the editor of North By Northwestern! Amanda has traveled with us to Washingto...
Huffington Post | Lindsay Dittman | Posted 05.25.2011
The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, signed into law yesterday, will bring major reforms to America's higher education system. The law plans...
Ellen Brown | Posted 05.25.2011
Under the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA), the federal government will lend directly to students, ending billions of dollars in wasteful subsidies to student lending firms.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE: The bill passed the Senate, 56-43, and the House, 220-207. The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act is headed back to the House of Repre...
washingtonpost.com | Nick Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011
College students swarmed Capitol Hill on Tuesday to plead for more financial aid as private lenders made a last push to preserve their endangered role...
The Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Legislation hailed by supporters as the most significant change to college student lending in a generation passed the House on Sunday night. The s...
The News Herald | SCARLET SIMS / News Herald Writer | Posted 05.25.2011
Unless the U.S. Senate acts, the Sallie Mae facility in Lynn Haven [Florida] likely will start "immediate" layoffs due to health care legislation that...
newsweek.com | Posted 05.25.2011
It's never seemed like much of a debate. Should the government spend $61 billion over the next 10 years to continue to subsidize the private lenders w...
Katie Naranjo | Posted 05.25.2011
As students organize for affordable college, it looks like Democratic leaders in the Senate intend to incorporate the student lending package (SAFRA) into the budget reconciliation vote.
Sara Haile-Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011
Today, over 20 youth organizations representing millions of young people sent the following letter to Congress urging swift passage of health care reform and student aid through the reconciliation package.
Sec. Arne Duncan | Posted 05.25.2011
The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree. And helping America's students pursue their education should always trump bankers in pursuit of profits.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
Having finally decided to use the filibuster-proof budget reconciliation process to push health-care reform over the finish line, Democratic leaders h...
Sec. Arne Duncan | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama has a plan to move our money from banks to students to make college more affordable for the next generation of engineers, teachers, and scientists.
Lindsay McCluskey | Posted 05.25.2011