Young Invincibles

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A young adult group dedicated to mobilizing 18-34 year-olds in higher ed, health care, & employment.

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United States, District of Columbia, Washington

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+1 202-734-6519

Founded date

2009

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Jan 7, 2026	Federal Funding Freeze Hits Vulnerable Families, Igniting State Backlash	The Trump administration has frozen over $10 billion in federal aid. Child care, social services, and low-income family programs face cuts. Five Democratic-led states bear the brunt: California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New York. The ...
Jan 6, 2026	Trump administration freezes Colorado funding for child care, families in ‘deep poverty’	Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado is facing a “devastating” freeze in federal funds meant for the state’s poorest families as part of a broader swipe the Trump administration took at five Democratic-led states Tuesday. The...
Aug 15, 2025	Some workers would be excluded from student loan forgiveness program for ‘illegal’ activity	Under current rules, government employees and many nonprofit workers can get their federal student loans canceled after they’ve made 10 years of payments. The program is open to government workers, including teachers, firefighters and emplo...
Apr 23, 2025	The Student Loan Dilemma: A New Wave of Debt Collection	The student loan landscape is shifting. The Education Department has announced that borrowers in default will be referred to debt collection. This decision has sparked outrage among advocates and borrowers alike. They argue that this move i...
Apr 21, 2025	Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says	The decision to send debt to collections drew criticism from advocates, who said borrowers had experienced whiplash and confusion with the changing student loan policies between the Biden and Trump administrations. “This is cruel, unnecessa...
Oct 30, 2024	Business \| Student loan ‘financial hardship’ forgiveness: new details revealed	“While this is yet another lawful avenue to cancel student debt, pushback is anticipated, so it is crucial that we move forward quickly to deliver this much-needed relief,” said Kristin McGuire, executive director of Young Invincibles, a po...
Dec 8, 2022	California Has an Opportunity to Extend the Basic Needs Mandate to Public Four-Year Universities, Young Invincibles Is Studying What That Will Take	Through a prior Spark Grant, Young Invincibles surveyed the largest higher education system in the nation, the California Community College (CCC) system, which is home to 1.6M students across 116 campuses. Their research sought to analyze c...
Oct 26, 2022	Get to Know the 2022 Student Basic Needs Spark Grantees	Home to nearly three million postsecondary students and some of the highest cost of living cities in the nation, California is uniquely positioned to tackle the basic needs crisis impacting college students. Recent studies have shown that 3...
Oct 27, 2021	How Young Invincibles Is Ensuring Student Basic Needs Dollars Are Spent Equitably	By Miguel Leon Prior to COVID-19, the student basic needs crisis in the United States had reached unprecedented levels. A survey conducted by The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice found that 39% of students were food insecure...
Jul 23, 2021	China’s ‘Starbucks for the young’ M Stand raises over $77m in Series B round	Premium M Stand, an emerging coffee chain brand in China, has raised over 500 million yuan ($77.3 million) in a Series B round of financing jointly led by BA Capital and GenBridge Capital, both of which specialise in investments in the cons...
Jul 23, 2021	China’s ‘Starbucks for the young’ M Stand raises over $77m in Series B round	M Stand, an emerging coffee chain brand in China, has raised over 500 million yuan ($77.3 million) in a Series B round of financing jointly led by BA Capital and GeneBridge Capital, both of which specialise in investments in the consumer se...
Jul 12, 2021	Higher Ed Groups Call On U.S. News To Stop Using SAT/ACT Scores In Its College Rankings	There are new calls for ending the use of standardized admission test scores in the ranking of ... [+] colleges. They should be heeded. getty
Jun 2, 2021	Why it may be hard to close the racial wealth gap without forgiving student debt	President Joe Biden’s plan to close the racial wealth gap includes making it easier for Black people to buy homes and start businesses. But without addressing student loan debt, activists say those goals may never be fully realized.
Jan 12, 2021	Hey, Higher Education: You’re On Mute	Higher education must unmute itself through collective action. getty
Jul 30, 2020	GOP Stimulus Bill Doesn’t Help With Student Loans	The Republican stimulus proposal leaves student borrowers without any relief, as the economy ... [+] continues to falter.getty
Jul 29, 2020	Teacher Unions Join 55 Organizations Opposing Stimulus Bill That Excludes Student Loan Relief	getty
Jul 25, 2020	Senate GOP Wants Stimulus Checks But Not Student Loan Relief	Senate Republicans have indicated that they will not include student loan relief in their stimulus ... [+] proposal. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Getty Images
Jul 11, 2020	Colorado, like other states, trims mental health programs amid health crisis	By Markian Hawryluk, Kaiser Health News As a teenager, Paulina Castle struggled for years with suicidal thoughts. When her mental health was at its most fragile, she would isolate herself, spending days in her room alone. Paulina Castle use...
Apr 14, 2020	College isn’t free yet, but Savi raises a $6M Series A to assist student loan borrowers find loan forgiveness	The student loan crisis has crescendoed to even worse heights. As universities shut down across the country due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and employment opportunities dim with the rapidly decelerating economy, today’s students and post-gr...
Jan 14, 2017	The financial security their parents enjoy may be out of reach for millennials: research	Millennials are on shaky ground, struggling to gain the same financial security afforded to their parents, new data analysis suggests. When baby boomers were young adults, their net worth was double that of today’s young people, who earn $1...
Aug 30, 2016	Study: Higher Student Loans Mean Fewer Young Entrepreneurs	Young Invincibles, a research and advocacy non-profit centered on exploring economic opportunity for young adults, released a new brief titled At the Extremes: Student Debt and Entrepreneurship. The study uncovered four related facts about ...
Jul 19, 2016	How international students are keeping US colleges afloat and powering the tech industry	Kalpesh Kapadia Contributor Kalpesh Kapadia is co-founder and CEO of SelfScore. Think back on your college experience and you may recall the presence of the International House, an on-campus residence set aside for international students. T...
Dec 20, 2013	Young invincibles’ decision: To get Obamacare coverage, or not	The success of the Affordable Care Act’s online marketplaces may depend on people like Lizzie Bunnen. If healthy adults her age don’t sign up, the risk is that predominantly older and sicker members will drive up costs and threaten the port...
Jul 26, 2013	Chicken Littles everywhere: Two activist groups focused on health insurance exchanges	But I got a plan. The “5 C’s”–a cash-for-care, catastrophe coverage, charity-based model that champions confidentiality at its best, and, of course, rips Medicare at its worst. “See, we have no idea how inexpensive healthcare could be,” Bra...
	Chicken Littles everywhere: Two activist groups focused on health insurance exchanges	As Citizens’ Council for Healthcare Freedom kicks off its “Refuse to Enroll” campaign this week to combat Obamacare, it’s helpful to think about it in the context of the loud (and about to get much louder) and frankly–maybe due to funding i...
	Young invincibles’ decision: To get Obamacare coverage, or not	Lizzie Bunnen’s medical insurance ran out this fall. She had every intention of buying new, subsidized coverage under the health law in October. “Then obviously I heard all the coverage about how terrible the website was,” said Bunnen, 26, ...
	Meet the middle-aged millennial: Homeowner, debt-burdened and turning 40	As millennials begin to turn 40 in 2021, CNBC Make It is launching Middle-Aged Millennials, a series exploring how the oldest members of this generation have grown into adulthood amidst the backdrop of the Great Recession and the Covid-19 p...

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When was Young Invincibles founded?

Young Invincibles was founded in 2009.

What has the press written about Young Invincibles?

Parsers VC has collected 28 articles mentioning Young Invincibles, among them “Federal Funding Freeze Hits Vulnerable Families, Igniting State Backlash” (Jan 7, 2026) and “Trump administration freezes Colorado funding for child care, families in ‘deep poverty’” (Jan 6, 2026).

Is Young Invincibles still active?

Yes, Young Invincibles is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 27, 2026.