The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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New Seattle Cooperative Refinances Student Debt with Community Funds
It's a win-win scenario – sort of like Lending Club for local college graduates.
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U.K. Student Loan Company Threatens Students Through Fake Debt Collection Agency
The not-for-profit Student Loans Company, which is owned by the government, uses controversial tactics to encourage students who have failed to keep to up with repayments.
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Do Not Forgive, Do Not Forget: These 37 U.S. Senators Just Voted Against Students
There is no economic argument against the student loan refinancing bill that Republicans killed this week in Congress, which would have stimulated the economy by putting $63 billion into struggling peoples' pockets.
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The Class of 2014 Just Made History: Highest Ever In Student Debt
Congratulations, class of 2014! You're officially the most indebted class ever.
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Chilean Activist And Artist Sets Fire To $500 Million Worth Of Student Debt
A heap of ashes is allegedly all that remains of $500 million in “pagarés” — or debt papers — stolen and burned by Chilean activist Francisco Tapia.
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Higher Ed, Not Debt: A Coalition Tackles America’s Student Financial Crisis
Occupy Wall Street activist Nelini Stamp of the Working Families Party talks about the new “Higher Ed, Not Debt” campaign that Elizabeth Warren helped launch.
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Organized Labor, Public Banks and the Grassroots: Keys to a Worker-Owned Economy
Worker-owned cooperatives build economic democracy. But how do we build more worker-owned cooperatives?
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Administration Tries Again With Regulations Targeted at For-Profit Colleges
For-profit schools, which target poor students and students of color, are responsible for 46 percent of the nation’s student debt defaults.
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Protests Grow in Britain to Tax Corporations, the Rich, to Fund Free Education
Lord Browne, the former chairman of BP during the Gulf of Mexico disaster and current chair of fracking company Cuadrilla, pressed for steep cuts to British education while oil and gas companies avoided paying taxes and schools got corporatized.
