Action Alerts

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House of Representatives puts forward proposals with massive cuts to safety net programs. Act now!
NWLC
Ask your Representative to co-sponsor the Ensuring Child Care for Working Families Act!
Coalition on Human Needs
Here comes a bill that takes steps to carry out the upside-down priorities of the House budget. The bill expected to reach the House floor overwhelmingly targets ...
Bully Project
Sign high schooler Katy’s petition asking the MPAA to give 'Bully' a PG-13 rating so the kids who most need to see it -- bullying victims and bullies themselves -- ...
Scantron
Organizations have teamed up--and encourage yours to as well-- to call on Congress and Administration to overhaul ESEA, reduce the testing mandates, promote multiple ...
The Student Loan Affordability Act (S. 2051) has been introduced by Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), and locks in the federally subsidized student loan rate at 3.4 percent ...
ACT 4 JJ
As early Tuesday, April 17, 2012  the House and Senate CJS Appropriations Subcommittees are expected to consider the fiscal year 2013 (FY13) juvenile justice ...
Tax Day—April 17th—is fast approaching! This Tax Day, we at United for a Fair Economy (UFE) urge you to work with us for Tax Solutions for the 99%. Our ...
ECM
Sign the petition asking your member of congress to support the Protect Our Kids Act!
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Noting that two-thirds of private student loan borrowers were not aware of the dramatic difference between federal student loans and risky, higher-interest, private ...
DREAMer
Your action today could make all the difference for young immigrants tomorrow. Stand up for human rights -- urge Congress to vote "Yes" on the DREAM Act.
Kid and trees
US Senator Jack Reed, Chairman, and US Senator Lisa Murkowski, Ranking Member are urging their colleagues to support US EPA’s Office of Children’s Health ...
Children's Leadership Council
Join fellow organizations to tell Congress to fight new provisions that will increase the minimum rent for low-income households! Sign this letter to the House!
A clean air rule would prevent 130,000 childhood asthma attacks and prevent up to 11,000 deaths a year, but some in Congress are trying to fight it. Tell your ...
Cartoon
Tell your Representative and Senator(s) that Congress must act to fully renew unemployment insurance without denying the child tax credit to millions of working poor ...
Sallie Mae
A college student's petition gone viral asking student loan company Sallie Mae to stop charging forebearance fees to unemployed students wishing to avoid default.
NWLC
The federal unemployment insurance (UI) benefits extension expires in less than a month. Help to prevent millions of unemployed workers from losing the lifeline of UI ...
Kids 2012
The majority of Americans rank children and youth among their top political priorities. It’s time our elected officials listened. A recent study found that ...
Speak up today in favor of ensuring that our high-poverty schools have the support and flexibility necessary to expand learning time for their students!
Help get child and youth issues on the platform for the 2012 election!