Congrats, New Grads! By the Way, You Don’t Know Anything
It’s the time of year when the internet is deluged with condescending lists of “advice for graduates”—stuff like “experience Paris” and “learn to wear purple until you laugh until you cry until you...
View ArticleHappy Graduation! Here’s The Best, Most Depressing Journalism on Student Debt
Outstanding student loans now top $1 trillion, more than the nation’s credit-card debt. We rounded up some of the best explanatory and accountability journalism on student debt. We’re also reporting on...
View ArticleStudents Rally to Occupy Graduation
Students Rally to Occupy Graduation Diana Delgado on May 11, 2012 – 2:51 PM ET On April 25, 2012, the unprecedented debt of American students surpassed the trillion-dollar mark. Consequently, students...
View ArticleOccupy Colleges talks to Dylan Ratigan about Occupy Graduation
MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan talks with Natalia Abrams, media spokesperson and one of the founding facilitators of Occupy Colleges, and Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FastWeb.com and FinAid.org, about the...
View ArticleOccupy Graduation on RT News
Kyle with Occupy Student Debt It’s that time of the year when hundreds of thousands of students are graduating college in America. The bleek job prospects in the US are only making it tougher to pay...
View ArticleBEYOND THE DEBT-FOR-DIPLOMA SYSTEM: 10 WAYS STUDENT DEBT IS BLOCKING THE...
April 25, 2012 | Jack Temple, Heather C. McGhee, Tamara Draut America’s experiment with the debt-for-diploma system has officially failed. Total student loan debt in the U.S. now tops $1 trillion – an...
View ArticleOver the last 10 years, tuition and fees at state schools have increased 72%.
A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College: ADA, Ohio — Kelsey Griffith graduates on Sunday from Ohio Northern University. To start paying off her $120,000 in student debt, she is already...
View Article‘Occupy Graduation’: Student activists broadcast debt owed with ball and chains
By Liz Goodwin | The Lookout A handful of student activists are expressing their displeasure at the rising cost of college by wearing inflatable ball and chain accessories over their graduation robes....
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