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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.
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Colleges Are Buying Stuff They Can’t Afford and Making Students Pay for It
A key factor in the rising cost of college is driven by expenditures largely unrelated to either the quality of the education, teaching or maintaining campus facilities.
Chilean Robin Hood? Artist Known as “Papas Fritas” on Burning $500 Million Worth of Student Debt
You may know the adventures of Robin Hood and Zorro, outlaws fighting for the poor. Today we meet the newest member of that club, a Chilean activist who goes …
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Students Now Indentured to the Banksters
Never in the history of the developed world has an entire generation had to go into debt just to get an education and a job. Until now.
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How Campus Chiefs Ace Executive Excess 101
These haven't been the best of times for the young men and women attending America's colleges and universities. Or for the faculty who teach them.
Elizabeth Warren’s Campaign to Tackle Student Debt and the Privatization of Education
Nelini Stamp, youth outreach director for Working Families, talks to Joshua Holland about student debt.