After Years of Troubles, Largest Student-Loan Servicers Get Stepped-up Oversight
(Photo/SMBCollege via Flickr) Sallie Mae and other large student-loan servicers – the companies that act as a go-between for borrowers and lenders – will soon be getting some regular oversight from the...
View ArticleReport: Many Private College Presidents Make $1M
In this Nov. 18, 2013 photo, University of Chicago president Robert J. Zimmer, left, shakes hands with Vice Premier Liu Yandong of China at the U.S.-China University Presidents Roundtable at the...
View ArticleSen. Warren: Allow Student Loan Borrowers To Refinance, Tax Wealthy
Senate Banking Committee member Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D- Mass. listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Nov. 12, 2013,(AP/Jacquelyn Martin) WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren...
View ArticleChilean Artist, Activist ‘Liberates’ $500 Million Dollars of Student Debt —...
(Photo: jpellgen/cc/flickr) An artist and activist in Chile has “freed” university students from their student debt by burning $500 million dollars in debt notes. The action last week was the work of...
View ArticleSharks Not Life Guards: Lawsuit Targets ‘Predatory’ Student Debt Relief...
Fred Vincent, a staff researcher from the University of California, Davis, left, joined more than a dozen other students, staff and supporters in a march that disrupted the UC Board of Regents meeting...
View ArticleAmid Student Debt Fight, Corinthian Colleges To Shut Down All Campuses
Student loan debt is now the largest form of unsecured debt in the country today, surpassing credit cards and auto loans. (Photo/SMBCollege via Flickr) Corinthian Colleges, the for-profit education...
View ArticleHow Wall Street Profits From Public Education While Students Drown In Debt
MINNEAPOLIS — An education crisis largely orchestrated by neoconservatives in both the Republican and Democratic Parties, has left some of the country’s oldest and most prestigious public universities...
View ArticleChilean Artist Steals & Destroys $500 Million Worth Of Student Debt Papers
An artist who goes by the name of Papas Fritas (which means “french fries”) is being revered as a modern-day Robin Hood due to his recent activism. The Chilean resident allegedly stole $500 million...
View ArticleSanders, Warren Propose Free Tuition Plan Funded By Tax On Wall Street
Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., greet one another during a rally Friday, March 31, 2017, in Boston. (AP/Steven Senne) Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, former...
View ArticleStudent Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers On The Backs Of The Young
The Web Of Debt Blog — The advantages of slavery by debt over “chattel” slavery – ownership of humans as a property right – were set out in an infamous document called the Hazard Circular, reportedly...
View ArticleAs Students Drown In Debt, Gov’t Rakes In $42 Billion Profit
Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan. (AP Photo) Arne Duncan’s Department of Education is making a killing from student debt. A report in Monday’s Huffington Post reveals that, in the fiscal...
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