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Student Debt
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Blaming the Victims: Media Bias Against Struggling Millennials
The mainstream media's common refrain - that the economic problems that young people face are the product of generational laziness and a sense of entitlement u2013 fails to report …
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Astroturf “Fix the Debt” Caught Ghostwriting for College Students
u201cFix the Debtu201d and its pet youth group, The Can Kicks Back, have been caught writing op-eds for college students and placing the identical articles in papers across the …
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Student Debt Is Crushing the Economic Future of the Young
If a bad job market wasnu2019t damaging enough, the cost of paying off student loans does much more harm to the long-term prospects of young people than is commonly …
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Five Ways Student Debt Resistance Is Taking Off
As student debt skyrockets, the movement to resist it is spreading.
Doing the Math: Student Loan Debt and the Adjunct Equation
Like other corporations, the university system makes a killing off part time workers and in turn, we are in debt for life.
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More Student Debt, Less Payback – Especially for Women
As more people go deeper into educational debt the payback is becoming ever more uncertain - especially for women.
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Obama in Buffalo
Last week President Obama visited Buffalo to use the University at Buffalo as a backdrop to address the soaring cost of higher education. Todayu2019s SUNY students, if they can …
Now Two States Pursue Truly Affordable Education
Maryland may soon join Oregon in exploring solutions to the crisis of student debt and unaffordable education.
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Henry A. Giroux | The Violence of Organized Forgetting
Henry Giroux: A war-like mentality makes it difficult to reclaim the language of social responsibility and civic engagement.
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“The Breaking Point” – Sacrificing All for the Sake of Education
As the government continues to education to become more expensive, Anna Challet asks when does the sacrifice become too much.