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Here are all the ways Trump’s budget screws young people
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They know.
President Trump released his budget this week and — aside from seeming to be for an imaginary country without our very real problems — it totally screws young people.
We’re going to talk about how.
The way this White House writes it, we’re back in the depths of a financial crisis. This time, though, we haven’t a penny to spare on stimulating the economy and job growth — in this imaginary recession, we can only cut benefits for the sick, the poor, and the young people that will drive the future of our country.
As this Budget returns us to economic prosperity, it will also allow us to fund additional priorities, including infrastructure, student loan reform, and initiatives to help working families such as paid parental leave. We will champion the hardworking taxpayers who have been ignored for too long. Once we end our economic stagnation and return to robust growth, so many of our aspirations will be within reach.
But our economy isn’t stagnant. It hasn’t been in years. We’re coming off one of the biggest recoveries in American history. The problem is that recovery has been uneven, and many of Trump’s supporters have been left behind.
Instead of lifting them up with this budget, though, the Trump administration is going to drag the rest of the country down with them. This goes especially for young people, and with the help of our friends at Young Invincibles (YI), a millennial advocacy group, let me count the ways.
“This budget is grossly out of step with the needs of young people and the priorities of most members of Congress. It fails to invest in young people and the future of our country, by slashing opportunities for young adults to gain skills through education, sustain themselves and their families, and contribute to our workforce,” said Reid Setzer, the director of government affairs at Young Invincibles.
I’ll say it again, Donald Trump doesn’t care about young people.
This budget leaves more young people without healthcare.
On top of the American Healthcare Act, which cuts $800 million off Medicaid, this budget cuts another $616 billion from Medicaid and CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program).
4 million young people gained access to healthcare with Obamacare. Now their coverage is at risk.
And lest we forget, Medicare helps schools pay to care for students with special needs and disabilities.
This budget screws young people looking to get technical training.
If you’re a young person looking to learn a technical skill under an apprenticeship type program, there’s going to be less to go around for you.
Trump’s budget cuts funding for the Perkins Career and Technical Education Act in half.
“CTE is vital for both students and employers because it teaches young people valuable, in-demand skills that employers need and provides hands-on training. However, this budget only allocates $186 million to implement its reauthorization, while the previous Administration asked for double that amount for its reauthorization proposal,” says YI.
This budget screws over poor kids and vets (in/or) trying to get to college.
The Trump budget cuts $193 million from TRIO and GEAR UP.
TRIO helps underprivileged kids and vets who are struggling in school through tutoring and counseling.
GEAR UP helps underprivileged kids get the college prep they need.
It also cuts the Youth Activities from the Department of Labor budget by $394 million. That program helps underprivileged kids get summer or year-round jobs that help them prep for college and develop skills.
This budget screws over young people working to pay for college.
Trump’s budget dramatically cuts two programs that help people pay for their education through work.
- The first is pretty self explanatory — The Federal Work Study program helps students get real world experience while paying for school. This budget cuts its funding by $488 million.
- It also completely does away with the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which helps teachers, counselors, social workers, public defenders, medical professionals and other public servants pay for grad school.
This budget screws underprivileged kids that need help paying for college.
Trump’s budget cuts $3.9 billion from the Pell Grant program, which helps underprivileged undergrads pay for college.
If you’ve never heard of the program, it was named after Democratic US Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, who helped create the Higher Education Act of 1965.
It also eliminates the Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant, which is awarded to needy students.
In the words of Joe Biden at a recent talk he gave in Las Vegas, “Raise your hand if you think 12 years of education is enough in our economy.”
Didn’t think so.
In fact, this budget screws people trying to pay for college, underprivileged or not.
This budget phases out subsidized students loans, which will impact about 6 million students per years.
It also phases out the Perkins Loan program, which provides low interest loans for people borrowing for college.
This budget screws over anyone who wants job training.
This budget cuts $1.3 billion from the Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act (WIOA), which helps people find and train for jobs in our modern workforce.
This program includes not just young people, but anyone who has lost a job because that job has moved elsewhere too, no matter how old they are.
This budget screws over anyone who wants to serve the country after college.
Trump’s budget kills the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), which includes AmeriCorps. It also employs 80,000 people a year.
This budget screws young people trying to buy a home.
Actually, Trump’s budget screws anyone trying to buy a home.
It cuts $948 million from the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, the biggest federal grant that helps cities and states around the country subsidize affordable housing.
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