The Atlantic is out with a piece today — Millennials Still Want to Buy Homes, They Just Don’t Think They Can Afford Them — exploring why first-time homeownership rates are lower today than between 1981 and the Great Recession. The...
“Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), who has famously declared herself a non-candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, has embraced Debt Free College and spelled out her own plan, which focuses on the debt load at public colleges and universities. Hillary Clinton, who needs to...
“At a forum Wednesday in South Carolina, Hillary Clinton will introduce a proposal that would offer businesses a $1,500 tax credit for every worker hired to a government-rated earn-and-learn apprenticeship. The program, meant to target stubbornly high unemployment rates among young...
2016 Millennial Memo (June 17, 2015) 509 days to go… Good morning, Millennial Memo readers. It may be Wednesday, but I am having a serious case of the Mondays. How do I get my hands on the Wheaties...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 16, 2015 Contact: Sarah Lovenheim, sarah.lovenheim@younginvincibles.org (WASHINGTON) — Ahead of a Joint Economic Committee hearing on so-called “fair-value accounting,” slated for June 17, Young Invincibles’ Policy Director Jennifer Wang released the following statement: “So-called “fair-value accounting”...
“Young Invincibles, an advocacy group representing Americans under 35, has suggested seven strategies that together could reduce debt. The biggest is tying the maximum Pell Grant to the average in-state tuition cost — nearly doubling the need-based federal aid at a...
Our generation is clear-eyed about the importance of postsecondary education and the challenge of paying for it – and we need more than slogans. Education and student debt platforms must have concrete details on policy design and implementation, their impact...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 8, 2015 Contact: Colin Seeberger, colin.seeberger@younginvincibles.org, 214.223.2913 [WASHINGTON]–Today, the Department of Education announced new guidelines for managing the debt relief process for students of failing schools like Corinthian Colleges. Young Invincibles’ Deputy Director Rory O’Sullivan released...
2016 Millennial Memo (6/3/2015) 523 days to go… Good morning, Millennial Memo readers! Catch new polling on Millennials’ views of presidential candidates at the bottom of this email. Missed last week’s memo? Be sure to find it here. It seems the only...
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