Students Face Up to the Nation's Finances

Students Face Up to the Nation's Finances, a project
in which Public Agenda is a partner, is shifting into
high gear as a result of a Peter G. Peterson Foundation
grant to fund curriculum materials to be used on
hundreds of college campuses for brainstorming on
the nation's fiscal challenges.

The expanded initiative is intended to raise awareness
of the many issues involved in America's growing
fiscal crisis, spark serious discussion of the problems
and policy choices posed by the looming deficit and
the national debt, and motivate students to become
active citizens demanding policy changes. Curriculum
materials, for use as mini-units in existing classes
and as mechanisms for student voices to be heard by
leaders and opinion shapers, benefit from Public Agenda's
research and analysis of how young Americans think about
issues vital for their own and the nation's future.

The Students Face Up to the Nation's Finances initiative
will coordinate with two other organizations that have
been instrumental in the initial piloting of the student
program, The National Academy of Public Administration
and The Concord Coalition.

For more about Students Face Up and to get materials, visit FacingUp.org:
http://www.facingup.org/our-budget-our-future

Students Face Up to the Nation's Finances is a natural
outgrowth of Public Agenda's successful, ongoing, nationwide
citizens' dialogue project, Facing Up to the Nation's
Finances. This multiyear collaboration is in partnership with
The Concord Coalition, The Brookings Institution,
The Heritage Foundation, and Viewpoint Learning.

Published July 11, 2008

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