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Take Action: Sign the National Wall of Student Debt
Student loan debt can often seem like a wall separating borrowers from their dreams, or even financial independence, after graduation. Even before then, many borrowers have to drop out of college when their debt burden is too high.
Recent graduates must often postpone major life decisions like buying a car or getting married because of high monthly payments. More and more borrowers who lose their job or otherwise become unable to repay are plunging into default, which drives up their debt even further.
Let's work together to make sure that fewer students leave college only to hit a wall of student debt.
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Get Out of the Way of Fair Pay
Tell the Chamber of Commerce what would you do with $223,776!
That is how much Goodyear underpaid Lilly Ledbetter over her career compared to the men doing her same job at the company! Not only is underpaying women unfair, it hurts their familes and it hurts the nation's economy. If women are paid the money the earn in the workplace, we would have fewer families in poverty, fewer families unable to pay their mortgages, and more families with money saved for retirement. In other words, denying women fair pay for the work hurts everyone.
It is time for groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to get out of the way of fair pay.
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Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Down and Paycheck Fairness Act To Go
The Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is now the law of the land. Next up, the Senate needs to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act. Help make pay equity a reality. Let's make sure the Senate votes FOR fairness to women and FOR helping American families.
Tell your senators to vote YES on the Paycheck Fairness Act NOW.
Watch Batgirl v. the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Use this calculator to find out the average wage gap for women in your state with your occupation or education level. Then you can click "Get & Share" at the bottom of the calculator to share this calculator far and wide by picking which place you want to post it (Facebook, your blog, your website, via email, etc) and sharing it with your friends.
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What would your family do with $434,000
Improving pay equity would create substantial economic gains for women and their families. A new report found that women lose approximately $434,000, on average, over a 40-year period because of the gender wage gap.* Other studies show that moms, especially single moms, fare even worse with the gender wage gap.But the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is standing in the way of fair pay by opposing pay equity reform proposals in Congress that are needed to achieve pay equity. Tell the U.S. Chamber of Commerce what your family would do with $434,000 and more importantly, tell the Chamber to get out of the way of fair pay.
Watch Batgirl v. the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Tell Congress: Include UIMA in the Economic Recovery Package
Unemployment Insurance helps keep families from losing their homes and falling into poverty when workers lose their jobs, and economists tell us that it is among the most effective forms of stimulus. But:
- Only 37% of unemployed workers collect unemployment insurance
- Low-wage workers are only one-third as likely to collect unemployment insurance.
- Unemployed women are 10% less likely to collect unemployment insurance.
- Part-time workers cannot collect unemployment in a majority of states.
- More workers are long-term unemployed in today’s economy, but they have a hard time finding work.
The UIMA would eliminate barriers and allow more workers, especially low wage workers, women workers, part-time workers, and the long-term unemployed, collect benefits. It would help more than 500,000 additional unemployed workers and their families get the unemployment insurance they have spent their working lives contributing towards.
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Progressive Action Center - Email Congress
Write Your Representative and Senators on any Issue that is Important to You!
Welcome to the Progressive Action Center. While IAmProgress.org will feature specific issue and community action campaigns, we also want to make sure you can always take action on any issue important to you. The Progressive Action Center is the place to take these actions. We have provided you with blank action forms to write Congress, the President, and the editors of your local and national news media, as well as tips on how to write effective letters.
Tips for Writing Congress
- 1. Start with a strong, clear statement about what you want your Representative and Senator to know.
- 2. Include the bill # and/or title if you are writing about a particular piece of legislation.
- 3. Write about how the bill or issue will affect you, your family, and your community specifically.
- 4. Use a civil tone, even if you choose to take a strong tone.
- 5. Ask specific questions about the issue and your Members' position on the issue.
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Progressive Action Center - Email the President
Write the President on any Issue that is Important to You!
Welcome to the Progressive Action Center. While IAmProgress.org will feature specific issue and community action campaigns, we also want to make sure you can always take action on any issue important to you. The Progressive Action Center is the place to take these actions. We have provided you with blank action forms to write Congress, the President, and the editors of your local and national news media, as well as tips on how to write effective letters.
Tips for Writing the President
- 1. Start with a strong, clear statement about what you want the president to know.
- 2. Include the bill # and/or title if you are writing about a particular piece of legislation.
- 2. Write about how the bill or issue will affect you, your family, and your community specifically.
- 3. Use a civil tone, even if you choose to take a strong tone.
- 4. Ask specific questions about the issue and the president's position on the issue.
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Senate: Pass the Recovery Package to Start Rebuilding America
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act includes many initiatives that help people in poverty, including home weatherization funds, UIMA, and child care. This essential legislation also includes a much needed expansion of the Child Tax Credit. Under current law, the Child Tax Credit gives up to $1,000 per child to households with kids—but it currently leaves out millions of children in the lowest income families. We need your help to increase support to these children.
The Background
The House package that passed last week, and the Senate bill under consideration, include many vital antipoverty measures. They dedicate resources to: home weatherization programs; child care and Head Start; unemployment modernization that will help 500,000 low-wage workers to get Unemployment Insurance for the first time, health care for unemployed workers; education, job training, and Pell grants; increased food stamp funding; aid for states to maintain education, health care, and community safety; billions of dollars in expanded refundable tax credits for low income households; and more.
One of the refundable tax credits in both packages is an expansion of the Child Tax Credit. Right now, the House package goes further by eliminating the earnings threshold, but if the Senate takes the simple step to follow their lead, 2.2 million more low-income children would qualify for a credit and 10 million more children would receive a larger credit. For example, a family with earnings of $5000 could qualify for a $750 credit, and a full-time minimum wage earner with two children would qualify for a $1000 credit for each child. The House approach provides an additional $3.9 billion dollars to very low income families. Read more about the Child Tax Credit.
We need your help!
Together, we call on the Senate to support the recovery package today, with the House position on the Child Tax Credit. If it does, children, families, and working Americans across the country will benefit from essential programs that are among the most effective forms of stimulus.
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Stop Supporting The O’Reilly Harassment Machine
On Saturday, March 21, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly sent one of his producers to stalk, harass, and ambush ThinkProgress.org’s managing editor Amanda Terkel. Upset over a ThinkProgress report that noted O’Reilly’s insensitivity to rape, O’Reilly sent two men to track Amanda in a car for two hours, and then confronted her with hostile questions while she was on vacation.
Sadly, Amanda is just one of at least 40 different victims of O’Reilly’s Harassment Machine. O’Reilly has hired producers whose job is to track, harass, and intimidate anyone whom O’Reilly perceives as an opponent. That’s not “journalism” — that’s a mafia-style operation. And we need to put an end to it.
Tell O’Reilly’s advertisers that you want them to issue a clear statement explaining their opposition to O’Reilly’s “ambush journalism.” Fill out the form below to tell O’Reilly’s corporate advertisers to stop supporting the O’Reilly Harassment Machine.
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Sensible Defense - Email Congress
We have written an email for you, but the more personalized your message the more likely you are to get the attention of your Congressperson. An email you write is more effective than a forwarding a pre-written mass letter or petition. Enter your ZIP code below to send your email. If you choose to rewrite the email we have provided, consider the following structure for your email and limit yourself to one page:
- State your purpose – why you are writing and who you are.
- Present your argument. Use facts versus emotional appeals. Make a specific reference to the programs we are focusing on:
- Eliminate funding in the 2010 budget for the F-22 Raptor.
- Redirect/Reduce missile defense funds by eliminating $214 million from the airborne laser program, $524 million from the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program, and $283 million from the Multiple Kill Vehicle Program.
- Cancel the manned ground vehicle component of the Army’s Future Combat Systems.
- End future procurement of the DDG-1000.
- Eliminate funding in the 2010 budget for the F-22 Raptor.
- Conclude with a call to action. Ask your Congressperson to maintain the cuts to these weapons systems as requested by the Defense Department and President Obama. And say thank you!
- State your purpose – why you are writing and who you are.
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Take Action: Choose Students over Banks
Email/Fax Congress
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Congress is currently considering a bill that would save almost ten billion dollars a year by shutting down a program that gives banks wasteful subsidies on student loans. The savings – as much as $87 billion over 10 years -- would be used to increase Pell Grants and other programs that help students pay for college. It would also expand programs to improve college access and completion, to make sure millions of additional young people can benefit from postsecondary education.
Unfortunately, loan company lobbyists are pressuring Congress to save their wasteful subsidies at the expense of students and their families. Since there is already a shortfall in the Pell grant program that this bill would help make up, the price of heeding their opposition to student loan reform could be about eight million low and middle income students seeing their Pell grants cut by 60% at the same time that states cut budgets and tuition costs soar. Additionally, 500,000 students could loose their grants altogether.
Join Campus Progress: Tell Congress to choose students over banks, because we need a better future, and because we are fed up with banks taking billions from taxpayers for no good reason.
Fill out the form below to send a fax to your Senators, and an email to your Representatives
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Hint: Your message is more likely to be read if you include a personal message, especially about your experience paying for college.
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Pass the DREAM Act in 2009
The DREAM Act is a bipartisan proposal that would create a pathway to citizenship for thousands of young students who were brought to the United States years ago as children.
If Congress fails to act this year, another entire class of outstanding, law-abiding high school students will graduate without being able to plan for the future, and some will be removed from their homes to countries they barely know.
This tragedy will cause America to lose a vital asset: an educated class of promising immigrant students who have demonstrated a commitment to hard work and a strong desire to be contributing members of our society.
Click here to learn more about the DREAM Act, or take action below.
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Getting a college degree is more important than ever, but students have to assume too much debt to pay for it. Increasing federal Pell grant aid will help students rely less on federal loans to pay for college.
Both President Obama and the House proposed a massive $40 billion dollar increase in student Pell grants. Now it is up to the Senate to invest in students.
Big lenders have spent millions fighting this proposal, which cuts wasteful lender subsidies from the federal government, and uses the $87 billion in savings to make college more affordable. To ensure that the Senate prioritizes students over banks, we need to Raise Some Pell!During the week of October 5 – 9, USSA, USPIRG and Campus Progress are asking young people to call, fax, and email their senators to demonstrate massive grassroots support for more Pell grant aid.
Find Your Senators, Make the Call!Use the form below to find your Senators and let us know how they responded, and the script below that to guide your conversation.
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What the Health Congress?!:
Young People Demand Health Care Reform
Young People are not invincible, we do care about health care, and we want Congress to pass real reform now.
Congress is taking up reform this week and the President has outlined a bold health care plan that our generation overwhelmingly supports. It will lower costs, end denial based on pre-existing conditions, give us choice and portability, and let us stay on our parent's plan until 26.
With young adults making up one third of the uninsured population, we have the most to lose from Congress’ failure to bring real reform to the health insurance system. We are being left out of employer coverage options, kicked off of our parents' insurance plans as we turn 19 or graduate college, and are being crushed by rising health care costs. We can’t afford to be silent and let opponents stand in our way.
We must show our support for President Obama's bold health care plan.
Tell Congress: Stop the partisan bickering, stop the compromises to appease health industry lobbyists, stop falling for the conservative rhetoric, and think about our future. The stability of our health, our economy, and our future hangs in the balance.
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Getting a college degree is more important than ever, but students have to assume too much debt to pay for it. Increasing federal Pell grant aid will help students rely less on federal loans to pay for college.
Both President Obama and the House proposed a massive $40 billion dollar increase in student Pell grants. Now it is up to the Senate to invest in students.
Big lenders have spent millions fighting this proposal, which cuts wasteful lender subsidies from the federal government, and uses the $87 billion in savings to make college more affordable. To ensure that the Senate prioritizes students over banks, we need to Raise Some Pell!
During the week of October 5 – 9, USSA, USPIRG and Campus Progress are asking young people to call, fax, and tweet their senators to demonstrate massive grassroots support for more Pell grant aid.
Sometimes it seems that Congress is 20 years behind our generation. That is why you will be able to send an old school fax to both Senators the same way that you would ordinarily send an email. You won’t notice a difference, but we hope Congress does.
Fill out the form below, and we will fax your message to your Senators, and email it to your Representative
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Hint: Your message is more likely to be read if you include a personal message, especially about your experience paying for college.
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The battle to make college more affordable has come down to a critical few weeks in the Senate. The banks and student loan companies already have spent millions of dollars on lobbying, PR firms, and advertisements in their attempt to stop reform and hang on $87 billion in subsidies that could be going to help students. Now Campus Progress is taking action. We've raised money to put this :30 second spot on cable TV and on Hulu in key states across the country.
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Dear Senator: Protect Reproductive Rights for Young Women
The House passed their health care bill and with it the Stupak-Pitts amendment was passed and is now threatening to end up in the final health care reform bill. We must stop this restriction on women's rights from becoming law.
The Stupak-Pitts amendment bans most abortions from being covered in the new health insurance exchange. Plans that cover abortion services will not be able to offer coverage in the exchange unless its subscribers can afford to pay 100% of their premiums with no assistance from the government. But the majority of women purchasing plans in the health insurance exchange will need government subsidies to purchase insurance, and many of these women will be young women ages 18-29. Women must be able to purchase private or public health insurance that offers comprehensive reproductivehealth care, including abortion care.
This amendment significantly impacts the youth generation: Fifty percent of U.S. women obtaining abortions are younger than 25 and 12.4 million women of childbearing age (15-44) are uninsured.
Take Action NOW: Your Senators have the power to block an amendment like Stupak-Pitts from ending up in the final legislation. Write Your Senator Below!
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Don't Leave Young Women Out of Health Care Reform
Kierra Johnson, Choice USAThe Senate is actively debating the health care reform bill, and Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska is proposing an amendment exactly like the Stupak amendment -- now is the time to ensure that reform includes abortion coverage. The Stupak-Pitts amendment aims to ban abortion coverage with reform. The amendment passed with House legislation and now could end up in the final Senate bill…unless we make our voices heard.
WHAT STUPAK-PITTS AMENDMENT DOES
- Under the Stupak-Pitts amendment, women would not be able to buy a plan in the new exchange that covers abortion, even if spending their own money to purchase coverage.
- Women who opt into the more affordable public option would be banned from getting coverage for abortion services, even if their own money was used to buy insurance.
- With Stupak-Pitts, it would be much harder—and perhaps impossible—for private insurance companies to offer abortion coverage for plans in the new health insurance exchange.
- Dramatic impacts on young women in particular - 50% of U.S. women obtaining abortions are younger than 25 and 12.4 million women of childbearing age (15-44) are uninsured.
Contact Your Senators Now to Stop Stupak
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Take Action: Tell Senators Casey and Specter to Make College More Affordable
President Obama has a plan to strengthen America by making college more affordable for millions of Americans.
The President proposes to save almost ten billion dollars a year by shutting down a program that gives banks wasteful subsidies on student loans. He wants to devote the savings – as much as $87 billion over 10 years -- to Pell Grants and other programs that help students pay for college. It would also expand programs to improve college access and completion, to make sure millions of additional young people can benefit from postsecondary education.
Unfortunately, loan company lobbyists are putting a lot of pressure on Pennsylvania Senators to save their wasteful subsidies at the expense of students and their families. When the loan companies come knocking, we want to make sure that Sen. Casey and Sen. Specter know that students have their back.
Not a Pennsylvania voter? No worries, you can contact your members of Congress by clicking here.
Fill out the form below, and we will fax your message to both Pennsylvania SenatorsHint: Your message is more likely to be read if you include a personal message, especially about your experience paying for college.
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Don't Leave Young Americans Out of Health Care ReformCongress is nearing the end of this health care battle and will soon pass a final bill to be signed into law. This is great news.
Unfortunately, the bill being finalized contains insurance plans targeted at young Americans that won't even cover most basic services. It will only cover care for catastrophes.
This plan is threatening to leave millions of people - including young people and low- and moderate-income people of all ages - without quality, comprehensive health coverage.We still have a chance to make sure no one is left out of reform. Congress can fix the legislation and ensure that young Americans have access to basic care at affordable costs.
Contact your Members of Congress today and urge them to make these outlined changes to the legislation so that millions of young Americans aren't receiving insurance in name only.
Tell Congress to Fix the Catastrophic Plan
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Tell Congress: Listen to Jon Stewart
On Monday's Daily Show, Jon Stewart said it best (start the clip at 4:48 for the good stuff):
The idea of taking away the middle man in college loans would get us 46 billion dollars over 10 years- that, stunned me. That gets us more savings than removing subsidies from oil companies which I guess over 10 years is like 40 billion.
Loan company lobbyists are pressuring Congress to save their wasteful subsidies at the expense of students and their families.
President Obama has proposes to save almost ten billion dollars a year by shutting down a program that gives banks wasteful subsidies on student loans. He wants to devote billions of dollars to Pell Grants and other programs that help students pay for college. It would also expand programs to improve college access and completion, to make sure millions of additional young people can benefit from postsecondary education.
Enter your zip code to send a message to your Senators and Representative
Hint: Your message is more likely to be read if you include a personal message, especially about your experience paying for college.
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Tell the Senate to Act Now to Stop Job Loss
More than a million and a half Americans could lose their jobs if the Senate does not act soon. Millions of Americans will immediately lose their unemployment insurance benefits if the Senate doesn’t act to extend unemployment insurance and COBRA subsidies by the end of next week. And state and local governments are slashing budgets, getting ready to lay off firefighters, police officers, and teachers.
Our country cannot afford the job loss that will come from inaction. Every dollar of unemployment insurance benefits creates $1.90 of stimulus in the community. Our country will lose another 800,000 jobs if the Senate’s inaction cuts off benefits.
And if the Senate acts now, federal aid could also save jobs in essential public safety, education, and health services provided by state and local governments.
Your senators need to hear that now is not the time to procrastinate.
Demand that the Senate vote immediately to save jobs by extending UI benefits and COBRA subsidies through the end of 2010 and by providing aid to state and local governments.
Fill out the form below to email your Senators
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Make Your Voice Heard on Health Care for the President's Health Care Summit
President Obama explains why he's hosting the health care summit
Today President Obama is holding a televised summit with members of the House and Senate to discuss the future of health care reform. Young Americans have to take this opportunity to let our legislators know the changes we demand.
Tell your representatives that it is time to pass reform that:• Creates a national exchange for health insurance
• Extends the age of dependent coverage to 27
• Expands Medicaid to low-income Americans
• Ensures that the Catastrophic plan for young adults is more than insurance in name onlyThey need to know that we refuse to stand by and watch health care reform fall apart.
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Stand With Students: Make College Affordable
On March 4th students from across the country are participating in a national day of action to protest budget cuts to higher education and tuition hikes, and lobby for increased student aid.
We can no longer afford to ignore our shortcomings in these areas: the average student debt for graduates has reached more than $23,000, and at least 37 states are slashing higher education budgets which will lead to increasing tuition and less student aid.
A few months ago, protesting students across
Enter Your Zip Code to Tell Congress and Your State Legislature to Stand Up for Education
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Tell Congress: Support the Reconciliation Bill for Student Aid & Health Care Reform
We've heard a lot of words tossed around to describe the point and potential of passing comprehensive health care reform. Yet, as we hit the final stage, the only word that matters, the one that we must reiterate until this debate ends is this:
Help.
Fundamentally, that's what reform is all about. It's based on the acknowledgement that while government can't solve all of our problems, it should be able to help.
Last week, Congress decided that student aid reform will be added to the health care reform package. This week, the House is expected to vote on that package. This bill will have double the impact for our generation by ensuring coverage for over 10 million uninsured young adults and investing $70 billion into making college more affordable.
That's right. This bill will take major steps toward delivering on two of the critical goals that brought so many of us to the polls in 2008: health care reform and college affordability.
This is a defining moment. This is it. Our chance to have the last word.
Make sure your representative gets your last word; tell them to support the reconciliation bill for young America.
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