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02/29/2012

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Even though students are stuck paying publishers' outrageous prices, you do have a few tools to reduce how much you spend. Being a smart consumer could save you hundreds of dollars every year. Follow these tips to save on textbooks!

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01/24/2012

Resource

Young Person's Guide to Health Insurance

Under the federal health care law, young adults have access to new, previously unavailable health insurance options. To make the most of those new choices, you need to learn the facts. This guide is designed to help you do that.

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01/20/2012

Blog Post

2012 Starts with a Win!

2012 Starts with a Win! 2012 has already brought a tremendous victory for students and families.

Today the President appointed Richard Cordray as the director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB will rein in the bad business practices of banks, lenders, and credit card companies.

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01/18/2012

Resource

Voter Protection Toolkit

Download this resource for everything you need to know to organize a voter protection campaign on your campus.

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New Voters Project

Jobs for Graduating Seniors

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If you are ready to dig in and start solving the problems that confront our country, consider a job with U.S. PIRG.
Let's Make Health Care Work

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We're working to make health care work in Colorado by supporting a pro-consumer health insurance exchange to bring competition to the health insurance marketplace, increasing affordability, access and choice for hundreds of thousands of families and small businesses.
Intern with CoPIRG

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As a CoPIRG Student Chapters intern you'll learn skills and get valuable experience working on a campaign. You’ll learn how to build teams of volunteers, organize events on campus, and work with the media.
A crash course in effective citizenship.

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Get the basic tools necessary to run strong campaigns and service projects and win reforms both on and off campus for students and the public interest.
Make Textbooks More Affordable

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We are educating professors about ways they can help reduce the cost of textbooks, like turning their book orders in on time and adopting open textbooks.
CoPIRG Energy Service Corps

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A joint project with AmeriCorps to educate and engage communities around energy efficiency. We educate the campus and community about the simple things we can do to save energy like switching out our old light bulbs to more energy efficient CFLs.