Generation Progress
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Generation Progress was a youth-centered research and advocacy group that promotes progressive political and social policy through support for young people, students, and young activists in the United States. Generation Progress was the youth engagement arm of the Center for American Progress. Launched in 2005 as Campus Progress, in 2013 the organization was renamed Generation Progress to reflect the group's work to reach beyond college campuses and involve older, working-class, and non-college-bound young people in progressive activism. Their main issue areas cover gun violence prevention, criminal justice reform, progressive economics, student debt, immigration, and climate change. Generation Progress had a sister organization, Generation Progress Action, that engaged in political and electoral advocacy activities in elections.
Generation Progress was a youth-centered research and advocacy group that promotes progressive political and social policy through support for young people, students, and young activists in the United States. Generation Progress was the youth engagement arm of the Center for American Progress. Launched in 2005 as Campus Progress, in 2013 the organization was renamed Generation Progress to reflect the group's work to reach beyond college campuses and involve older, working-class, and non-college-bound young people in progressive activism. Their main issue areas cover gun violence prevention, criminal justice reform, progressive economics, student debt, immigration, and climate change. Generation Progress had a sister organization, Generation Progress Action, that engaged in political and electoral advocacy activities in elections. ==History== From the organization's founding in 2005 until 2012, Generation Progress was led by David Halperin, former White House speechwriter to President Bill Clinton. Halperin was succeeded by Anne Johnson, and then by Maggie Thompson, who formerly led the Higher Ed, Not Debt campaign. The current executive director of Generation Progress is Brent J. Cohen. As of 2021, Edwith Theogene was the director of advocacy at Generation Progress. ==See also== Generation Opportunity ==External links== Generation Progress Generation Progress on OpenSecrets.org
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