Youth Urge Congress to Pass a Progressive Budget on National Call-In Day this Tuesday
April 20, 2009
CONTACTS:
Katie Andriulli, Campus Progress
202-481-8238 / kandriulli@americanprogress.org
Youth Urge Congress to Pass a Progressive Budget on National Call-In Day this Tuesday
Young people across the country set to demonstrate support for increased college access and affordability, green jobs, and expanded healthcare coverage
Washington, DC – This Tuesday, young Americans will call their representatives and senators, urging them to support passage of a bold, progressive budget in 2009. Callers will be pressing for a budget that will help build for the future by departing from the failed economic policies of the past, and refocusing our country’s priorities on the issues that will strengthen our economy in the long term: improving access and affordability of higher education, greening the economy, and reforming health care. Campus Progress, the youth outreach arm of the Center for American Progress, is one of the nonprofit organizations hosting the call-in day.
“It has been predicted that my generation will be the first to fail surpass our parents’ standard of living. As a young person, I know that it is past time for us to make critical decisions about where our country’s priorities lie, and how we are going to begin rebuilding for the future,” said Erica Williams, Deputy Director of Campus Progress. “That is why this coming Tuesday, me and other young people from coast to coast will be calling our representatives to urge them to support a bold, decisive budget that will build for tomorrow by making investments today. We know that our elected officials have critical decisions to make, and that there is a lot of money on the line. What we want to make clear to them is that there is no trade off between fixing the economy, educating all of our young people, ending our health care crisis and putting us on the road to a clean energy economy.“
The call-in day is being sponsored by the Generational Alliance, a coalition of youth organizations working to make young people’s voices heard. For more information, or to speak to students who are participating in the call-in day, please contact Katie Andriulli at 202-481-8238 or kandriulli@americanprogress.org.
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