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This Monday, the Student PIRGs submitted a host of policy recommendations to President-elect Obama’s Transition Team. Our top recommendations included:

Ensuring at least $64.2 billion in renewable energy investments in technologies such as wind and solar and in green job training that will play a crucial role in repowering America with clean, homegrown energy;

Making college more affordable by lowering the interest rate on the PLUS loan, increasing protections for students who borrow from private lenders, and working with the Department of Education to ensure full participation in a new law to disclose textbook prices to faculty; and

Protecting basic voting rights by passing legislation to implement a system of automatic and permanent voter registration that ensures students and others are registered at their current address.

Full memos submitted are posted at studentpirgs.org/transition.