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By Eugene Jarecki
By Philip P. Pan
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Rather than bridging economic disparities between students, higher education seems to be widening them; although Google’s new customizable maps sound like a great idea, they filter out a lot of useful information; and although some would like to blame the collapse of the middle class on the Internet, truth is it was falling apart long before the World Wide Web. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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Posted on May 18, 2013
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The Obama administration is set to pull in $51 billion from student loans this year, “a sum greater than the earnings of the nation’s most profitable companies and roughly equal to the combined net income of the four largest U.S. banks by assets,” The Huffington Post reports.
Posted on May 17, 2013
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch —
Posted on May 13, 2013
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Crippling student debt is keeping hundreds of thousands of Americans from spending money on goods and services in the real economy, which is constraining the nation’s recovery.
Posted on May 11, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on May 11, 2013
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By Marian Wang, ProPublica —
Student fees have been something of a known irritant for years, often criticized as a kind of stealth, second tuition imposed on unsuspecting families. But such fees are still on the rise on many campuses. And though their names can border on the comical—i.e., the “student success fee”—there’s nothing funny about how they can add up.
Posted on Mar 31, 2013
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College costs climbed to an all-time high in 2012 while state and local funding for items such as operating expenses and student aid fell, a new report shows.
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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After the president of one of the last tuition-free universities in the United States announced that it would begin charging fees for graduate programs, 11 students occupied a campus building to “demand that the school reaffirm its commitment to providing free education” and a revision of the university’s management style.
Posted on Dec 4, 2012
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There seems to be little reason to believe that Barack Obama listens to any of the advice his left-wing critics offer him, but Michael Moore’s suggested list of priorities for the president’s second term might be useful in measuring Obama’s performance in the months and years to come.
Posted on Nov 20, 2012
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Jianping Fan, Cagle Cartoons, Guangzhou, China —
Posted on Sep 17, 2012
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Students all over America are defaulting on their student loans, especially those who attended private, profit-making institutions; Democrats’ chants about Osama bin Laden’s death take us back to George W. Bush’s boasts about Saddam Hussein; meanwhile, new scientific studies prove organic produce contains fewer pesticides and bacteria. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Sep 10, 2012
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Are you poor? Female? A student? A veteran? Planning on growing old? Zach Woods of “The Office”? Well, congratulations! If Mitt Romney is elected president, then you’re definitely going to get screwed by his running mate Paul Ryan! Click below to find out how.
Posted on Aug 13, 2012
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Banks gave money to needy college students without considering whether borrowers could repay, then bundled and resold the loans to avoid losing money when students defaulted—lending practices that mirror the run-up to the subprime mortgage crisis.
Posted on Jul 21, 2012
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Half of all recent college graduates are jobless or underemployed, with mounting student debt levels creating huge obstacles for millions of young people, an analysis of government data for The Associated Press has found.
Posted on Jul 10, 2012
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The U.S. once led the world in free education. The recent debate in Washington about whether to let student loan interest rates double ignores the fact that many students already cannot afford a college education or advanced training.
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By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch —
We have a new science fiction trilogy that’s perfect for our moment: Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games,” a dystopian vision set in a North America ruled by decadent, luxurious oligarchs who sacrifice young people in an annual televised Roman-style blood contest.
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You may know that American student debt—which is swelling at a rate of almost $3,000 a second—is expected to hit $1 trillion by the end of the year. But do you know how the tab breaks down by ethnicity? Who owes the most? Who owes the least? Is anyone escaping its debilitating grip? (more)
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In the aftermath of the stock market failure of 2008, another type of economic bubble is swelling: student debt. And it’s no surprise, since Congress has done nothing to change the lending practices that brought the U.S. to the brink three years ago. (more)
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According to the Project on Student Debt, the average arrears for graduating U.S. students is $24,000, but that figure is low for many who are entering a state of sustained debt peonage during the wonder years of young adulthood. (more)
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Israel’s Zionism turned capitalism is getting out of hand; Postmodernism is dead, leaving many to question what it was in the first place; meanwhile, the Americas are projected to replace the Middle East as the energy capital of the world. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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In case you haven’t noticed, Americans between the ages of 15 and 30 are remarkably undisturbed by the extent to which corporations and their bought-and-paid-for politicians dominate nearly every aspect of their lives. (more)
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