This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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Why Student Loans are Creating a Permanent U.S. Underclass
With private lenders out of the business, government is now in charge of issuing newer debt – but rather than alleviating the problem faced by young Americans, some programs on offer seem as predatory as what came before them.
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Student Debt Protests Escalate After Armed Marshals Arrest Man for Old Loans
Seven U.S. marshals armed with automatic weapons turned up at Paul Aker’s home in Houston, Texas, last week to arrest him over a $1,500 student loan debt dating back to 1987.
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Act Out! [38] - Saddled dinosaurs, students rise up & green washed politics
First, since when did stupidity become so popular? I guess since dinosaurs wore saddles – yes, saddles. Next up, education is a right and it's time to stop treating students like customers at a luxury store.
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Students at 100 Campuses Join First-Ever March for Tuition-Free College
The student debt crisis has reached a boiling point. Instead of despairing, students across the country have spent months organizing what is expected to be an historic nationwide walkout.
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Million Student March On Nov. 12 Calls for Free Tuition and End to Debt
“We’re waking up with empty hands and empty pockets and realizing that we shouldn’t be shackled to debt before we even enter the adult world."
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Debt By Degrees: How America's Wealthiest Colleges Are Saddling the Poorest Students With Debt
New data shows that more than a quarter of the nation’s 60 richest universities leave their low-income students owing an average of more than $20,000 in federal loans.
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The Movement Lives On: 4 Years Later, Occupy Has Succeeded in Spite of Its Failures
Occupy Wall Street may not have dismantled capitalism – but it did profoundly change the way people perceived it, and how their voices can impact institutions of power all over the world.
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“Don’t Owe, Won’t Pay”: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Debt Is Wrong
No street protests are necessary, no confrontations with riot police, to stop payment on a credit card or student loan – the financial system is vulnerable to a few million mouse clicks.
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The Student Loan Crisis and the Debtfare State
With over $1 trillion in outstanding loan balances, the student loan industry has a lot in common with the subprime mortgage industry.
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The Triumph of Occupy Wall Street
Nearly four years after the precipitous rise of Occupy Wall Street, the movement so many thought had disappeared has instead splintered and regrown into a variety of focused causes.
