Hooray for the Project on Student Debt!
Sorry for the radio silence everyone. But I'm baaaaack... with a little news on a project you should know about, the Project on Student Debt.
Everyone knows that the rising burden of student debt has become a crushing force in the lives of many young adults. Well, now there's a group of us trying to do something about it in a big way. Leadership is coming from this new group, the Project on Student Debt, with a lot of grassroots activity from students on the ground and at partner groups such as the Student PIRGS and US Student Association.
The new director of the project, Robert Shireman, is something of a legend, and he had the good sense to hire (without my input I should note) one of my family friends from growing up, Edie Irons. Nice job Bob! You, as we say over here, rock.
Anyway, the point here is this. During 2004, a lot of us set out to prove that you can increase the youth vote if you just have some basic resources. We were successful in that mission: you voted. Big time.
The next step in our campaign to build political power for young people is to fight it out on some key issues.
Rock the Vote has spent this year working on Social Security, one of the Administration's top priorities. Others are focusing more on student debt, where the goal is to make it a priority even if the politicians don't want to.
All of this fits together with trying to make the youth voice heard in our political system. There is a conspiracy in your favor under foot, and you can do your part to make it work.
So if you care about student debt issue, get involved today!
Sorry for the radio silence everyone. But I'm baaaaack... with a little news on a project you should know about, the Project on Student Debt.
Everyone knows that the rising burden of student debt has become a crushing force in the lives of many young adults. Well, now there's a group of us trying to do something about it in a big way. Leadership is coming from this new group, the Project on Student Debt, with a lot of grassroots activity from students on the ground and at partner groups such as the Student PIRGS and US Student Association.
The new director of the project, Robert Shireman, is something of a legend, and he had the good sense to hire (without my input I should note) one of my family friends from growing up, Edie Irons. Nice job Bob! You, as we say over here, rock.
Anyway, the point here is this. During 2004, a lot of us set out to prove that you can increase the youth vote if you just have some basic resources. We were successful in that mission: you voted. Big time.
The next step in our campaign to build political power for young people is to fight it out on some key issues.
Rock the Vote has spent this year working on Social Security, one of the Administration's top priorities. Others are focusing more on student debt, where the goal is to make it a priority even if the politicians don't want to.
All of this fits together with trying to make the youth voice heard in our political system. There is a conspiracy in your favor under foot, and you can do your part to make it work.
So if you care about student debt issue, get involved today!
posted by Hans Riemer at 3:37 PM
4 Comments:
For a lot of students, getting a job that could actually cover their school costs would mean going to school part time, or working so much that their chances of success are diminished. Students who want to should be able to dive into school head first, without being hamstrung by crippling debt after they graduate.
It's great that you were able to pay for school by working, but that option doesn't work for every kind of student in every kind of school. Statistics show that full-time students who work more than 20 hours a week don't do as well in school, and are more likely to drop out or attend part time.
That said, I think that given the cost of college and the post-graduation consequences of student debt, it may be a good idea for students to take some time off after high school, work, gain experience, make connections, and save money, and then go to college a little later with those savings, when they know what they want to do.
I agree that a great deal of the costs incurred by students is the result of the choices they make, not necessity. What solutions are being advocated by Crock the Vote? As usual, meaningful solutions aren't offered because ya'll have no ideas of substance.
If more money gets handed out in the form of loans, it would mean more not less student debt. So more money doesn't necessarily mean less student debt especially when students are willing to go into all kinds of debt to go to the school they want.
My name is Lis,
I am a volunteer for HelpaStudent.com
We are a group of students who created a site www.helpastudent.com
Our goal is to collect 1 million dollars before the end of the current semester and give the money out to students who are in desperate financial need.
Participating students post their stories and visitors to the site get
to choose who gets to win the money.
Please support us by mentioning our site to your audience. Students
who visit your blog are very likely candidates to come up with fun and
creative stories!
Thank you
Lis Guerrero
Volunteer for www.helpastudent.com
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