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Student Debt
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Who’s Against “College for All”?
The financial elite and their supporters want to retain the influence of money on higher education policy.
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Student Debt Movement Is Getting Democratic Candidates to Respond
Student debt is now a bona fide campaign issue.
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Free Community College, Anyone?
An Oregon bill promises free community college tuition but targets only middle-class students, overlooking the other half of the costs.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Institutional Racism Must End Once and for All, and More
In today's On the News segment: Systematic poverty, student debt strikers, environmental extremists, and more.
Congress Gets 400,000 Signatures Demanding Debt-Free College
College students currently face more than $1.3 trillion of education debt in the US.
The Student Loan Crisis and the Debtfare State
Debtfarism represents a set of institutional and ideological practices aimed at regulating and normalizing the growing dependence on expensive consumer credit to meet basic needs, such as education.
A Robin Hood Tax to Pay for College for All
College students currently face more than $1.2 trillion in debt.
The Poverty Machine: Student Debt, Class Society and Securing Bonded Labor
Millennials are forecast to experience a decline in standards of living comparative to their forebears.
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Higher Education Lobby Quietly Joins For-Profit Schools to Roll Back Tighter Rules
Traditional colleges and universities have become unlikely allies of the beleaguered for-profit industry.
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What Happens When the Student Loan Bubble Pops?
71 percent of people have some sort student loan debt and the average is nearly $33,000.