The Herchinger Report By: Jon Marcus Greg Noll balances his engineering major at Columbia University with a work-study job in the university’s fitness center, filling spray bottles, wiping sweat off the machines and picking up towels for 20 hours a week...
The Register-Guard By: Diane Dietz College students took out more in student loans in 2013 and graduates defaulted on higher levels of debt, a spate of year-end studies suggest, making debt a major preoccupation of the so-called millennial generation. Banks wrote...
Cleveland Plain Dealer By: Karen Farkas CLEVELAND, Ohio – Much of the more than $1 billion a year in federal taxpayer-funded work-study money for college students is going to the children of better-off families at expensive private universities, and not their...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 30, 2014 Contact: Colin Seeberger, colin.seeberger@younginvincibles.org, 214.223.2913 Young Invincibles Cheers Creation of Postsecondary Education Complaint System New System Could Help Shine Light On Predatory Practices of Questionable Postsecondary Educational Institutions [WASHINGTON]— Today, the U.S. Department of...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 28, 2014 Contact: Colin Seeberger, colin.seeberger@younginvincibles.org, 214.223.2913 Young Invincibles’ Statement On President Obama’s Fifth State of the Union Address [WASHINGTON]— This evening, President Obama delivered his fifth State of the Union Address. Aaron Smith, Young Invincibles Co-Founder...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 9, 2014 Contact: Riana King, riana.king@younginvincibles.org, 213.221.7326 Young Invincibles’ Statement on Governor Brown’s 2014 Budget Proposal Proposed Budget Invests Greatly in Higher Education, but Leaves Unemployed Youth Behind [LOS ANGELES, Calif.]—Today, Governor Jerry Brown released his...
By Joshua Bloom My parents didn’t go to college. Neither did their parents. When it came time for me to decide what I would be doing after High School, I really had no idea. “I guess I’ll apply,” I would...
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) crafted a bipartisan budget deal to avoid another government shutdown and provide some budgetary certainty. We were pleased to see that the deal protects investments in higher education, like Pell Grants...
At Young Invincibles, we’ve been researching how complicated it is to figure out where to go to college and navigate the federal financial aid system. To help with that research, we recently visited Portland Community College, an institution that serves...
Many Young Americans Blame Colleges For Rising Student Debt By Tyler Kingkade The Huffington Post NEW YORK — A majority of young Americans say student debt is a major issue facing the nation, a new poll finds, and many blame...