Four Reasons Young Americans Should Burn Their Student Loan Papers
Student debt endangers the livelihoods of many young Americans. It's time to wage a war against student loan predators. Continue reading The post Four Reasons Young Americans Should Burn Their Student...
View ArticleState Attorneys General Call on Feds to Forgive Fraudulent Student Loans
Nine states have urged the Obama administration to offer immediate federal loan forgiveness to the many thousands of students who enrolled at various for-profit schools owned by Corinthian Colleges....
View ArticleFight For $15 Expands to a Fight for Good Jobs
“If we don’t bring our fights, our campaigns, together, we are not going to accomplish anything. This fight is for everyone.” Continue reading The post Fight For $15 Expands to a Fight for Good Jobs...
View ArticleBlack Students Feeling Especially Crushed By Student Debt
Until we take measures to attack the problem head-on, student debt will continue to drag on the American economy. We cannot stand for that. Continue reading The post Black Students Feeling Especially...
View ArticleThe Student Loan Crisis and the Debtfare State
It is crucial that we reveal, attack and uproot the increasing power of the student loan industry — and acknowledge the government's role in the crisis. Continue reading The post The Student Loan...
View ArticleThese Students Are Leading a Movement for Free College in the United States
The idea of free higher education has gained new political life thanks in part to a high-profile champion. Sen. Bernie Sanders has made tuition-free college a signature issue of his presidential...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong with the Obama Administration’s Plan to Help Student Debtors
As the general election campaign gets underway, one of the issues candidates for the White House and Congress should be debating is what to do about the $1.3 trillion student debt burden. The struggle...
View ArticleTrump, DeVos ‘Betray’ Students With Gift to Predatory For-Profit Schools
The Trump administration on Wednesday announced that rules designed to protect students from predatory for-profit schools will be delayed and possibly scrapped entirely. Continue reading The post...
View ArticleHow the Student Loan Industry, Trump and Neoliberals Are Creating a Nation of...
Most of the discussion about student debt in the United States has centered on its excessiveness, the negative impact it has on home-buying for the next generation, various refinancing schemes, and...
View ArticleRepublicans Are Right: Going to College Hurts
Going to college is a good thing, right? That’s at least what I was told as a kid, and what led me to get a college degree. I was the first one in my family to do so. Yet new public opinion polling...
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