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Student Debt
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Jim Hightower: Turning College Students Into Commodities
Turning Wall Street loose on college students will turn them into chattel indentured to investors.
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Student Debt Crisis: It’s Time for a Jubilee
With soaring tuition, poor job prospects, and loans that take decades to pay off, thereu2019s no question that students need a year of jubilee.
Is Citi Engaging in Criminal Abuses of Servicemen Student Loans?
Mortgage services were found to be failing to reduce interest charges to 6% and foreclosing on military personnel who were deployed.
In a Risk Society, Is Consumption Our Only Tool to Influence Our World?
In the age of the citizen-consumer, does a public that relies on privately funded social services and self-purchased insurance have any agency beyond our
A Student Debt Strike Force Takes Off
Can young people re-imagine the burden of debt as a a productive tool, rather than a means to profit?
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How the Student Loans Debate Got Religion
Thereu2019s a biblical precedent for forgiveness - of debt. Why churches are standing by students on one of the Bibleu2019s most surprising social principles.
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The Aftermath of Occupy Will Surpass the Gains of 1960s Activism
Every year, a fresh batch of grads leaves college to face poor job prospects. Many will become protesters and fuel the growing movement for economic justice.
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Congress Approves a $127 Billion Transportation and Student Loan Package
The deal wraps up a two-year transportation measure with bills to extend subsidized student loans.
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Michelle Rhee to For-Profit College Industry: You’re “Doing Incredible Work“
Although APSCU refused to allow Republic Report to cover its Las Vegas conference, we were able to obtain an audio recording of Michelle Rheeu2019s remarks today. You can listen …
Wall Street’s Mutant Greed Gene Marches On
In the realm of prevarication, there are deceivers, fibbers, liars, politicians ... and Bank of America. For weeks, this financial behemoth has been running a nationwide PR blitz, portraying …