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Criminal Justice Reform
In this op-ed, writer Peter Rezk, a student at Carnegie Mellon University and intern at Generation Progress (a Center for American Progress project), shares how his personal history led him to believe in the value of Clean Slate laws for…
Student Debt
Maggie Thompson, Executive Director of Generation Progress, and Senya Merchant, Program Manager for the Higher Ed, Not Debt campaign, express their opinions on the impact student loans have had on the millennial population in an op-ed published by The Hill.
Student Debt
At a National Youth Serving Institutions Stakeholder meeting at the Department of Education last week, Diane Jones, principal deputy under secretary, called the program a “disaster” and “budget gimmick” according to a Generation Progress staff member at the meeting. Generation Progress is…
