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Student Debt
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Congress Gets 400,000 Signatures Demanding Debt-Free College
College students currently face more than $1.3 trillion of education debt in the US.
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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.
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A Robin Hood Tax to Pay for College for All
College students currently face more than $1.2 trillion in debt.
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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.
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Class Bigotry at Washington University in St. Louis: A Resignation
I just sent the following open letter of resignation to Mark S. Wrighton, chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis.
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Three Reasons Why the United States Is Broken, Bloated and Bleeding
Facing inequality, police militarization and spiraling military costs, what kind of country will we be?
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Student Debt Strikers Grow in Number and in Power
Today, there are more than 100 debt strikers.
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