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Student Debt
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.
First Fall Semester Debtors’ Assembly at SIUC: A Critique of the Student Debt Regime
Just a few decades ago, accumulating debt in and as a result of attending college was virtually unheard of.
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More US Diplomas Come With Crushing Debts
More than 40 million Americans currently hold student debt. They are collectively responsible for $1.2 trillion of outstanding student loans in the United States.
Why Are Campus Administrators Making So Much Money?
College and university administrators, unlike their faculty and students, are thriving.
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Defending Free Tuition in the Big Apple
The Committee to Save Cooper Union is pursuing legal action to defend the school's 150-year tradition of providing free tuition for all.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Intelligence Agencies Say They’re Too Big to Follow Regulations, and More
What do we do when an intelligence agency says they're too big to follow regulations?
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The 37 Senators Who Voted for Millionaires Over Students
Senate Republicans sided with 22,000 millionaires over 40 million Americans with student debt by blocking the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act.
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Zombie Resurrection
It's not the Boomers who are stealing from the Millennials, and ruining their future.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: President Obama Announces an Order to Help Americans Pay Student Loans, and More
President Obama announced an executive order to help five million Americans pay off their student loans, and more.
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Another Reason to Rein in Big Banks: Student Loan Shenanigans
High interest rates and more than $1.2 trillion of student loan debt are not the only challenges facing the 40 million Americans with student loans.