rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/higher-ed-reconciliation-2025?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-higher-ed-reconciliation-2025' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> AFT Activist https://actionnetwork.org/groups/aft-main-e-activist-group https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/groups/default_facebook_images/000/004/355/original/Screen_Shot_2021-09-24_at_10.34.08_AM.png?1632494514 Access to affordable, high-quality higher education has been pivotal in creating pathways to the middle class through our history. Everyone has the right to pursue their dreams without being burdened by a lifetime of debt, and federal funding protects these pathways to the middle class regardless of someone’s ability to pay upfront or outright. Congress is considering proposals that will strip critical funding from our colleges and universities to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy, making a college education more unaffordable for all of us and completely unobtainable for some, just to give billionaires another handout. Click "start writing" and tell your lawmakers: Oppose a reconciliation bill that will increase costs for students and their families; make paying those costs more expensive; and decreasing protections for students that ensure their time and money is getting them a high-quality higher education. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/higher-ed-reconciliation-2025