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Demand Affordability for Student Loans

New Orleans Congress is debating real limits on the amount of student aid that they will cover on for-profit colleges, since finally they have the memo that too many for-profits are fleecing the students and they are paying the bill both on the front end with $20 billion in student loans and on the [...]

Campaign to reduce student loan debt

New Orleans When I was in Columbus, Ohio a couple of weeks ago, I was stunned when an organizing colleague, Barbara Clark, told me that 75% of the 300 or so tax returns she had helped do at a VITA site at the Neighborhood House had student loan debts that were [...]

Student Loan Dead Weight

Columbus I thought I remembered the Neighborhood House from 30 years ago, but that was a couple of story, white building…must have been something else because now the operation presided over by Allen Huff for the last dozen years was huge with an auditorium, gymnasium, multiple buildings, and god knows what else, [...]

Shocking Student Loan Debt

New Orleans In talking about Citizen Wealth around the country I’m frequently asked about education and the old saw that education creates income security.  Odds are that there is still truth to that, but it was shocking to read how predatory the least slipup can be for students taking on debts for a key to [...]

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