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The Joys of Abolishing Debt
The Rolling Jubilee is premised on the argument that no one should be forced into debt for basic needs like healthcare and education.
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Occupy Offshoot Cancels $4 Million in Predatory Student Loans – and Starts a Debtors Union
"Rolling Jubilee is a fantastic way to punch through the illusion that you actually owe what the 1 percent thinks you owe," said Thomas Gokey, a Rolling Jubilee co-founder …
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Education With a Debt Sentence: For-Profit Colleges as American Dream Crushers and Factories of Debt
Over the last three decades, the price of a year of college has increased by more than 1,200 percent.
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Europe Should Fear Depression More Than Debt
Actual inflation in Europe is falling and the recovery has stalled. By the time the downward spiral becomes undeniable it may well be irreversible.
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Reconceiving Change in the Age of Parasitic Capitalism
Massive economic damage and human suffering resulting from the 2008 financial crisis continue unabated while the implications of this crisis continue to elude us.
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Henry A. Giroux | The New Authoritarianism in an Age of Manufactured Crises
Important issues are buried in the fog of manufactured crises, designed to stir popular sentiment but actually legitimizing policies that benefit the wealthy and hurt working- and middle-class communities, …
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Cry for Argentina: Fiscal Mismanagement, Odious Debt or Pillage?
Argentina was the richest country in Latin America before decades of neoliberal and IMF-imposed economic policies drowned it in debt.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Americans Are Drowning in Debt, and More
Americans are drowning in debt, and more.
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Economists Call on Congress to Mitigate Fallout from Ruling on Argentine Debt
Over 100 economists, including Nobel laureate Robert Solow, Branko Milanovic and Dani Rodrik called on Congress today to take action to mitigate the harmful fallout from the recent ruling …
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The Language of Expulsion
Whether the long-term unemployed in the global North or the long-term displaced in the global South, people are being expelled from economy, society and nation in increasing numbers.