Medicaid coverage has been proven to improve the lives of young adults by increasing access to health care, reducing financial burden, and supporting economic opportunity and employment. However, states like Kentucky and Mississippi have introduced proposals to introduce work requirements...
Historically, American young adults have voted at the lowest rates of any age group during national elections. College students in particular face unique barriers in both registering to vote and voting. Having long served as incubators of civic engagement, institutions...
Young Invincibles’ Midwest office is generating support to expand Illinois’ MAP grants for higher education. Twenty organizations joined the letter to the Illinois state legislature. Read an excerpt: “Illinois can increase access to higher education and careers for young adults of...
Daniel Niersbach is the student body President at Indiana University. He wrote a letter to Indiana Senators Joe Donnelly and Todd Young asking them to support the College Transparency Act. In the letter, Daniel writes: “Postsecondary data reform would open doors for so...
Young Invincibles sent a letter to Sens. Alexander and Murray, the leadership of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee detailing our recommendations for any upcoming Higher Education Act reauthorization bill. “Fixing our higher education system will require action from all...
Last week, Marissa Martin, Northeast Director, testified before the Assembly Standing Committee on Higher Education in regards to the Excelsior Scholarship and Enhanced Tuition Assistance Program. While the Excelsior Scholarship brought investment and attention to higher education, Young Invincibles recommended...
Following decades of decline in youth voting since the 1960s, in its 1998 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, Congress broadened the scope of the act to include, for the first time, a provision on student voting. Congress rightfully saw...
Young Invincibles submitted a letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma highlighting our profound concerns with Iowa’s Section 1332 State Innovation Waiver. The state’s proposal violates federal law by not adhering to the ACA’s 1332 comparable coverage, affordability, and budget neutrality requirements. The proposal...
Young Invincibles submitted comment to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance ahead of today’s Hearing to Consider the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson Proposal. This proposal would reduce federal funding for health care, end the ACA’s Medicaid expansion and financial assistance, fundamentally undermine the Medicaid...
Each year, millions of students apply for federal student aid by filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Completion of the FAFSA is necessary to determine a student’s eligibility for federal Pell grants and integral for states...