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Because elected officials have a direct effect on your job, your rights, and your family's and community's well-being, it is critical that you get involved in the 2012 elections. This year, you will vote to elect the president of the United States. As we look at what is happening now across the country, that election takes on even greater significance.
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Every day, in state after state, public employees and the services our communities depend upon are under assault.
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In the News
G.O.P. ‘Super PAC’ Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama New York Times (5/17)
Health care reform: GOP preps plan for ruling on law Politico (5/16)
Top Issue
Student Loan Interest Rate Hikes
Keeping Student Interest Rates Low #DontDoubleMyRate (WhiteHouse.gov)
Educating Our Way to an Economy Built to Last: Stopping the Student Loan Interest Rate Hike (WhiteHouse.gov)
Take Action! Write your senators today. (AFT.org)
AFT Voices
We want to hear your story of what doubling the interest rate on student loans would mean for you or your family, or for the people you educate and serve.




