Getting a higher education degree is more important than ever to open up career opportunities for our generation and help us gain financial security, but getting into, affording, and completing college is difficult. For so many students, education is a...
Ever since I was little and my family of four lived in Mexico, my parents repeated the phrase “primero la escuela,” school comes first. I can recall in high detail the countless times my journey as a Pokémon master was...
I grew up in Flint, Michigan, where I recently have been fortunate to complete Mott Community College and am looking forward to continuing my education at University Michigan in the Fall. Unfortunately, many other young people in Flint will not...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 25, 2017 Contact: Allie Aguilera, allie.aguilera@younginvincibles.org, 202-734-6529 [California]- Last night, Governor Jerry Brown Signed AB 214, a bill that will make CalFresh, California’s SNAP program, more easily accessible to low-income college students, into law. In...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 21, 2018 Contact: Allie Aguilera, allie.aguilera@younginvincibles.org, 202-734-6529 [Washington]- This week, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced the DREAM Act of 2017, a bill that would offer a path to citizenship for...
As a first-generation college student, who didn’t understand the label at first, I soon realized that often it meant that I had to navigate through unique hurdles that sometimes caused frustration and, in the worst of times, almost drove me...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 19, 2017 Contact: Allie Aguilera, allie.aguilera@younginvincibles.org, 202-734-6529 [Washington] – Today, the House Budget Committee and House Appropriations Committee began markups on spending bills that work together to strip funding for programs that young people need to...
Numerous studies have demonstrated how labor market outcomes information can influence student perspectives and decisions on where to got to college and what to study. A new study from the Urban Institute suggests such information fails to influence prospective high...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 13, 2017 Contact: Allie Aguilera, Press Secretary, 202-734-6529 [Washington]- Today, the House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee will mark up a proposed spending bill that would cut $5B from the entire Labor-H portfolio, down to $156B from $161B...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 11, 2017 Contact: Sarah Schultz, sarah.schultz@younginvincibles.org, 202-734-6510 Yesterday, The California legislature passed Assembly Bill 214, authored by Assemblymember Shirley N. Weber (D-San Diego), which addresses one our state students’ most basic and most serious needs –...