• Monitored issues regarding: COVID relief bills and implementation, HR 133 and HR 1319, American Rescue Plan Workforce readiness, financial literacy, entrepreneurship education, and related educational activities, including on-line learning and technology. Community Reinvestment Act issues. FY24 National Defense Authorization Act, issues tied to financial literacy and DOD.

Duration: July 1, 2015 to present

General Issues: Education

Spending: about $700,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2015: House of Representatives, Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Treasury - Dept of, U.S. Senate, Education - Dept of, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Small Business Administration (SBA)