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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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DeVos’s Education Budget Throws Students to the Loan Sharks
Slashing $10.6 billion from federal education funding, the new budget plan includes $500 million to invest in charter schools, $250 million in voucher program expansion funding, and $1 billion to “push public schools to adopt choice-friendly policies.”
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The Student Debt Crisis Is Exploding–Nothing Less Than a Student Debt Jubilee Will Do
Alan Collinge, the founder of Student Loan Justice, says current legislative efforts won't relieve current students of debt nor protect future students from acquiring debt – and he anticipates that the college debt crisis will explode within the next year.
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Want to Revitalize Rural America? Forgive Student Loan Debt for Young Farmers
The National Young Farmers Coalition makes headway on a loan forgiveness bill in Congress.
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The Real Living Wage? $17.28 An Hour – At Least
In almost every state, a worker needs more than $15 an hour to make ends meet. Add in student debt, and the minimum living wage shoots up to $18.67 an hour nationally.
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How Student Income Loans Transfer Wealth to Investors and Risk to Students
A crucial difference between the subprime debt bubble and the student debt bubble is that the properties that comprised subprime mortgage securities served as collateral to the mortgage debt.
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5 Years After Zuccotti Park, Occupy Movement Is Driving America's Political Change
The next time someone says the Occupy movement is dead, ask them this: “Do you really think serious activists for social and economic justice were going to spend the rest of their lives living in tents in parks?”
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College Would Be Free In America If Corporations Paid Reagan-Era Taxes
Big businesses paid an effective tax rate of nearly 32 percent during Reagan’s eight years in office, but under Obama they have enjoyed paying just 22.8 percent – the average annual difference coming out to around $166 billion in corporate profit.
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What Does Student Loan Forgiveness Have to Do With Farming? Everything.
As more farmers retire, some lawmakers see student loan forgiveness as key to keeping small-scale food producers on the land.
