Debt

Today in the United States total student debt exceeds $1 trillion. As an individual borrower, you are alone and powerless against your lender. But as a group, borrowers can use their collective bargaining power to achieve better outcomes. Our goal is to use the collective influence of 100,000 people

Congress is getting ready to go on a two-week "spring break" at the end of March, even though they have not reached a deal to meaningfully address our mounting national debt burdens. When is the last time you got a two-week spring break? It is unnecessary, especially since so much work needs to be

LET'S STOP PAYING! When we get to 3 million signatories in the world, we will commit not to pay... STOP TO THE BANKING FINANCIAL IMPOSTURE We are no longer prepared to pay this system of odious private and public debts that enslaves us, brings about ecological destructions, batters democratic

Student Aid will be cut by 6% if Congress doesn't prevent the Sequester. Over 100,000 students could lose a significant part of their aid, and millions of students will lose some aid. Students receiving "the most aid" would have to pay $876 more per year for their education. It's time to tell

At 1pm on Saturday February 2nd Brown Up to Us will be hosting a showing of the documentary Overdraft in Macmillan 115 (the building across from the Scili on Thayer St). Check out the preview. If you can't make it here's a link to the youtube video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqW628w_z4w

At our tabling events, Up to Us: NYU is conducting an activity called the "spending cuts races." For a list of all our tabling dates, check our schedule. Everyone who stops by our table will have the opportunity to put in a token for 1 of 3 nonprofits: Teach for America, a nonprofit that staffs