The work of Campus Progress Action, part of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, is premised on the idea that young people don’t have to wait to change the world; they have the power right now to tip the balance on critical issues from environmental sustainability to economic opportunity to human rights. We work to see that new generations of progressives are better trained, better informed, more inclusive, and more united than ever before – so our country will have leaders with the skills, experience, and vision to address the most important challenges of the future.
Check out these public education campaigns from our partner organization, Campus Progress.
Campus Progress launched the Students Over Banks campaign in July 2009 to advocate for a plan that would put $87 billion in bank subsidies for student loans into the more efficient direct lending program. The plan was put forth originally by President Barack Obama and would help students to better afford higher education and push toward Obama's goal of making the United States the most educated country in the world by 2020. Visit the site to take action and get updates.
Campus Progress represents the youth movement to demand bold change for our broken health care system. We engage young people on health care reform through policy updates, promoting nationwide activism with our coalition partners, Health Care for America NOW, and fighting as part of the Y.I. Want Change, a group of more than 20 youth organizations, for provisions in reform. Find out more about our health care campaign here.
Through our work with the Energy Action Coalition, Campus Progress is one of the leading organizations working with young people calling for an end to the climate crisis by creating millions of clean energy jobs and eliminating handouts to polluters. We help young people on college campuses run campaigns to reduce their communities' carbon footprints and help them build relationships with law-makers. By making their communities more sustainable, they are giving their legislators a concrete example of the benefits of working towards a cleaner economy. We also engage young people with national climate and energy updates.
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Progress is a proud member of Free Exchange on Campus, a coalition of
student, faculty, and civil liberties organizations working to protect
free speech at colleges and universities and to stop measures, like the
so-called Academic Bill of Rights, that would impose government
censorship on what teachers can teach and students can learn. Members
of the coalition are committed to advocating for the rights of students
and faculty to hear and express a full range of ideas unencumbered by
political or ideological interference.
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