Record Student Loan Debt Shadows This Year’s College Graduates

Students face a Catch-22: not going to college almost guarantees not progressing into the middle class, but high student loan debt also restricts social and economic advancement.

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Want to Grow the U.S. Economy? Cancel Student Debt, New Report Shows

Cancelling all student debt could boost U.S. GDP by more than $1 trillion over 10 years and lead to an increase of up to 1.5 million new jobs, according to a new report by the Levy Economics Institute.

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Student Loan Giant’s Lost Paperwork Results in Thousands of Dismissed Loans

A staggering array of incompetencies by the National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts is leading to the dismissal of at least $5 billion in student debt, impacting potentially tens of thousands of borrowers in a widening scandal.

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Student Debt Is Rising Worldwide, Straining Governments and the People They Serve

Higher education is contributing to unprecedented student loan debt challenges in both developed and developing countries, as college costs rapidly rise and student loan debts reach disquieting record levels for both graduates and governments.

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Hey Students: Damn The Debt! Lessons and Tactics From Past Debt Resistance Movements

The student debt strike isn't the first time debt resistance movements have taken hold across the U.S. – and the lessons we learn from prior movements can well be applied to today.

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Do Democrats Want To Fix Inequality – Or Just Complain About It?

Inequality is all anybody can talk about, except Democrats on the campaign trail who desperately need to turn out the very people so disproportionately affected by it: young and minority voters.

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Germany Abolishes College Tuition Fees

“We got rid of tuition fees because we do not want higher education which depends on the wealth of the parents."

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The Subprime Education Scandal: For-Profit Colleges and America's Factories of Debt

With student loan debt quadrupling between 2003 and 2013, it’s time to ask whether education alone – not to mention the kind that robs you for profit – can move people up the class ladder.

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Occupy Group Strike Debt Buys and Abolishes $4 Million in Everest College Student Loans

The Rolling Jubilee group that grew out of Occupy Wall Street has purchased and eliminated a portfolio of private student loans worth millions at Corinthian Colleges in California.

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How Oregon's "Pay It Forward" Bill Tackles Student Debt

Oregon's new Pay It Forward bill will delay tuition being paid by any student attending any state school until after s/he graduates and gets a job.

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