Nick Troiano

Bio

Nick Troiano is an independent, citizen-funded candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 10th District. He is also a co-founder of The Can Kicks Back and a James Madison Fellow with the Millennial Action Project. He is from Milford, PA.
I Just Turned 25. Here's Why I'm Running for Federal Office.
By Nick Troiano
John Adams once envisioned our Congress to be "in miniature an exact portrait of the people at large." Since our founding, our country has made significant strides toward closing the racial and gender gaps in representation. The current…
Millennials Risk Being Ignored in Politics – And That Should Scare the Heck Out of You
By Nick Troiano
Two years ago, in the midst of the hyper-partisan war over the federal debt ceiling, a group of frustrated student body presidents gathered at the National Press Club in Washington, DC and gave voice to a generation that is so often left out of…
INFORM Act is One Reform to the Budget Process Every Millennial Should Support
By Nick Troiano
Politicians in Washington like to talk about their children and grandchildren, but they apparently are not used to listening to them. As a fellow millennial, I suspect what they would hear is a plea to start worrying more about the next generation…
Follow the Leader: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Politics
By Nick Troiano
This week marks a milestone I never thought I would see, as a new documentary that I had the good fortune to participate in is released nationwide on iTunes and PBS. Follow the Leader profiles three young men as they embark upon diverging paths in…
Remembering the D.C. Visionary Doug Bailey
By Nick Troiano
Doug Bailey was one of the first people I met in Washington, and I couldn’t be a more fortunate person for it. My boss, turned mentor, turned friend and neighbor taught me all there is to know about politics, being a good person and – perhaps most…
Want Social Security and Medicare Someday? Start Having Babies
By Nick Troiano
The new Medicare and Social Security trustees reports serve as a reminder that these important programs are on a certain path toward insolvency. By 2026 and 2033, respectively, their so-called trust funds will run empty and neither program will be…
2014 Budget: Both Parties' Budget Proposals Shortchange Millennials
By Nick Troiano
Have you ever been challenged to the "heads I win, tails you lose" coin flipping game? (Hint: it never works out in your favor.) Well, that's exactly the kind of game both parties are playing with the Millennial generation over the federal…
Chained CPI Would Reduce the Growth Of Future Social Security Benefits
By Nick Troiano
Social Security is a vital program that is on a sure path toward insolvency. That's the cold, hard fact worth confronting at the start of any conversation about social insurance reform. The simple reason is demographics: as our population grows…
What If Congress Went Into a Conclave?
By Nick Troiano
Imagine. The C-SPAN cameras have been switched off for the first time since 1979, and the House gallery has been cleared of both guests and media. Inside the warm and crowded chamber, 535 members of Congress and the president of the United States…
Sequestration 2013: How to Make Sure the Debt Crisis Doesn't Sink Millennials
By Nick Troiano
Millennials are about to get hit hard, again, when across-the-board cuts in the budget sequester take effect on Friday. Yes, we need to reduce our long-term deficits. But we also need to do so in a generationally-balanced way that does not sacrifice…
Sequestration 2013: How We Can Avoid Massive Budget Cuts
By Nick Troiano
Unless Congress and the White House act soon, over $1.2 trillion in automatic, across-the-board spending cuts are set to take effect on March 1 and be phased in over the next decade. With a projected deficit of $845 billion this year, isn’t that a…
Debt Ceiling Delay Demonstrates Need For Obama's Leadership
By Nick Troiano
The echoing sound of a tin can being repeatedly kicked down the road, most recently with the fiscal cliff and now with the debt ceiling, is beginning to awaken the public to the debt crisis headed our way. Concern about the federal budget deficit…
As GOP Primaries Come to an End, Americans Elect Begins
By Nick Troiano
“BREAKING: The GOP primary is turning out as everyone has known it would for months now,” wrote Ezra Klein of the Washington Post following Mitt Romney’s decisive victory in Florida on Tuesday. Although only four states have voted, the Republican…