Leg priorities today courtesy of UW WashPIRG 📑 🖊️

Great to meet with our Rutgers University–New Brunswick Rep, Frank Pallone, Jr.! Thanks for being a champion of student issues 💥

Check out our Newark Chapter Vice Chair Julie at the U.S. Department of Education! We know students are forced to spend way too much on necessary textbooks. That’s why we’re working to pass the Affordable Textbook Act to get funding for Open Educational Resources! #TextbookBroke

Wrapped up our lobby day by meeting with Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr.! Thank you so much for your commitment to protecting our environment and uplifting student voices 💪

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Students and Staff at Rutgers Camden show their support for #righttorepair! Let's fix our stuff!

Each week this year, we honored a “Student of the Week” for their outstanding commitment to making social change and building the public interest movement. Congrats to this year’s students of the week - and the countless others that helped make the past year a success!!

We’re hiring across the country! If you are ready to recruit, train, and develop the next generation of leaders as we tackle the biggest issues of our time, you should become an organizer with the Student PIRGs! jobs.studentpirgs.org

NJPIRG out and about for EPA’s youth council launch!

Happy to support EPA’s special announcement! U.S. EPA Michael S. Regan Rutgers University–New Brunswick President Donald J. Trump

Automatic billing of textbooks curbs student and faculty choice and raises costs for students. We’re glad the The White House is taking action to stop this exploitive practice! #TextbookBroke Read more: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

This past Friday marked the end of the voting period for the NJPIRG referendum! Thanks to everyone across the state who voted YES to keep NJPIRG funded at Rutgers #studentpower

Last fall, we collected 4000 surveys from students at 110 colleges and universities nationwide, and found that although the textbook market has radically changed in the digital age, those financial struggles remain the same. Check out our new report.

Teaming up with Rutgers University Libraries, faculty, and Rutgers University Student Assembly, we released our new report on textbook affordability to members of the media to make sure we do what it takes to make textbooks more affordable. 📚

Students at Rutgers–Camden hosted a press conference at the Rutgers University Libraries releasing the new report on the high cost of textbooks! They got covered on the local ABC6 news station for this awesome work 👏👏👏

.Rutgers University-Newark students know— textbooks are way too expensive! So we released our new report on textbook affordability alongside Rutgers University Libraries and SGA today.

We spent the day today in DC lobbying to make textbooks more affordable, reduce food waste, and more! Student PIRGs

Thanks to Cory Booker’s office for meeting with us about efforts to fund #OpenTextbooks and reduce food waste!

So excited to have met with Rep. Frank Pallone’s team today! Excited to keep working together to save Rutgers University students on textbook prices 📚

Today is the annual NJ Grassroots Organizing Conference! Join us at the Rutgers New Brunswick Labor Education Center till 5pm to learn critical skills from professional organizers!