April 12, 2018 Introducing the Campus Competition Judging Panel In March, the sixth year of the Up to Us Competition came to a close with 103 teams from participating schools nationwide submitting their Final... Read More
March 14, 2018 Spring My Two Cents Day Recap In February, an additional 43 teams participated in Up to Us’ flagship event, My Two Cents Day. This year we saw great examples of creativity from... Read More
March 7, 2018 CBO Releases 2017 Federal Budget Infographics On March 5th, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released four budget infographics offering a detailed look at fiscal year 2017 as well as broader... Read More
January 19, 2018 365 days of Trump: A Retrospective by the Numbers As with every new President, it is common practice to take inventory across a few major milestones within their tenure as POTUS. We followed along... Read More
January 17, 2018 What to know about the debt ceiling and government shutdowns The U.S. government must pass funding legislation by January 20th to avoid a government shutdown. A large part of funding the government is paying... Read More
January 8, 2018 Up to Us Voices: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Only days before the holiday break, President Trump signed the tax cut bill on December 22, 2017. While there was lots of coverage on the bill and... Read More
November 20, 2017 Fall Recap of My Two Cents Day Over the past six years, My Two Cents Day or #MTCD, has become an opportunity for teams to flex their creativity, work with campus partners... Read More
November 1, 2017 Up to SFSU My name is Nathan Bowman, I am the team leader at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Here at SFSU, social issues are a hot topic. Often... Read More
October 23, 2017 Up to Us Alumnus Speaks at the 10th annual CGI U meeting in Boston The Clinton Global Initiative University is the student version of the successful Clinton Global Initiative, which brings together world leaders to... Read More
October 20, 2017 FSU student represents Up to Us at 10/18 CNN Debate Night: GOP Tax Plan Fiorella Riccobono, a student from Florida State University and Up to Us team leader wrote an op-ed published in Quartz during the 2016-2017 Campus... Read More
October 3, 2017 Sixth-Annual Campus Competition Launches on College Campuses Nationwide October 1 st marked the start of the new fiscal year for the United States government at a time when our country's debt has surpassed $20 trillion... Read More
September 6, 2017 The fate of the debt ceiling in the wake of Hurricane Harvey Congress has returned from summer vacation with a large to-do list and very little time to accomplish everything. The debt limit expires at the end... Read More