YI got its start in 2009 as a D.C.-based volunteer organization advocating to expand health care access for young people who needed it most. One of those young people still stands out to me – a young man from Wisconsin...
Last week, a group of Senate Republicans unveiled their latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act and strip millions of Americans of their health care coverage. Graham-Cassidy, named after its primary sponsors in the Senate, is even worse than...
New Data: Young Adult Uninsurance Rate Continues to Drop Under the ACA Uninsurance rate among young adults drops for fourth year in a row, now down to 14.1 percent. Young people represent over two-thirds of those who gained health insurance...
The unemployment rate for young adults ages 18-to-34 years-old remained unchanged in July, holding at 5.8 percent. The national unemployment rate dipped slightly to 4.3 percent. Young adults in Illinois suffer from some of the highest rates of unemployment, 14.2...
Next week the U.S. Senate will vote to begin debate on a plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act. What that plan is, who knows? Even Senate Republicans’ second in command said that “knowing what the Republican healthcare bill will...
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...
By GJ Sevillano On June 15th, Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed an astonishing 50 bills that were originally passed during the 85th Legislature Regular Session. The Governor has not vetoed this many bills since 2007. The bills vetoed by the Governor ran...
Too many college students in California are hungry. For so many of them, “giving it the old college try” can mean going without food for long stretches and experiencing severe physical pain and mental anguish. This limits students’ ability to...
Reflecting a strong month of job growth in the economy overall, the number of employed young adults ages 18-to-34 increased by 199,000 in June. The young adult unemployment rate declined from 6.0 percent in May to 5.8 percent in June....
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just published their analysis of the Better Care Reconciliation Act, Senate Republicans’ proposal to replace Obamacare. The CBO’s analysis projects that the uninsurance rate for 19- to 29-year-olds earning less than 200 percent of the...