Action Alerts

U.S. PIRG
April 22, 2011 Save Student Aid
Last year student loan debt topped credit card debt for the first time ever, and this year it will top $1 trillion. Please send an email to Congress today asking ...
Chairman Ryan's budget for the upcoming year makes substantial cuts on valued education programs including Pell Grants that provide college funding to millions of ...
Advocates are already organizing in opposition to Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's budget plan for FY 2012, which proposes to convert the Medicaid program into a ...
Coalition on Human Needs
Your voice is urgently needed!  The House of Representatives is set to vote this week on a budget proposal that is stunningly extreme.  It is ...
The National Coalition to End Child Abuse Deaths is seeking 10,000 signatures on a petition asking Congress to hold public hearings on child abuse fatalities, provide ...
The MLB Commissioner made a statement in his belief that smokeless tobacco should be banned at the Major League level, there is still a lot of work to be done for ...
Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is planning major improvements to the quality of the food offered in school breakfast and lunch – and it wants to hear from ...
BABIES
Research shows that investing in babies provides an unmatched return compared to almost any other form of public investment. Yet babies and toddlers are facing $3 ...
Reject cuts to our children's future!  Health, education, and safety programs such as Head Start are facing deep cuts in the proposed budget cuts for 2012.  ...
The Senate is expected to vote this week on alternative plans to approve spending for the rest of this year.  They will vote on whether to agree to the extreme ...
The House of Representatives passed its version of the FY2011 federal budget. Act now to prevent 368,000 children from losing Head Start and other child care services!
Huge proposed cuts to job training programs under the Department of Labor are up for a vote in the House of Represenatives.  Don't miss your chance to fight for ...
Federal programs and services proven to foster economic progress and protect low- and moderate-income families face deep cuts in the name of deficit reduction. ...
COLLEGE
Lend your voice to a national discussion on what we need to do to lead world in college completion by 2020. It's easy—this summit is the first place to start.
States across the country have cut their investment in tobacco prevention and cessation.
The House passed The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (S. 3307) with a controversial cut to food stamps.
On Thursday, August 19, 2010, California’s bill--Senate Bill 399--will be voted on in the state Assembly.  SB 399 allows for a review of life without ...
The Child Care & Development Block Grant is an unusual program in that its federal funding comes from two sources: discretionary appropriations and mandatory ...
The Promoting SUCCESS Act (HR 5963) would direct the Secretary of Education to carry out a grant program to fund pilot projects to explore how the camp experience ...
Healthy Teen Network and the National Women's Law Center are pleased to announce that U.S. Representative Jared Polis (D-CO) and 16 other Members of ...