OCCUPY
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BIG NEWS: President Obama announced this week that our friend Eric Schneiderman, New York's progressive Attorney General, will lead a new Special Unit to prosecute Wall Street illegality.
Urge Eric Schneiderman: Jail bankers who broke the law. | Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC)
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The National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA) recently published a survey in which they gathered information about student loans via an online survey.
Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements.
Guernica / Bruce E. Levine: 8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the U.S. Crushed Youth Resistance
OCCUPY STUDENT DEBT
I became disabled in 1999 with a year to go before graduating with two science degrees. Having transferred from community college to a public university and working 30 - 40 hours per week, my loans were pretty minimal. In-state tuition was a lot lower then.For three and a half years, I've been giving interviews to newspapers, television shows, magazines, radio shows and blogs. This article, however, holds a special place in my heart as it's the paper I grew up with and it's where my friends.family and neighbors who haven't been paying close attention will learn more about what it is I do.
Forgive Student Loan Debt to Stimulate the Economy | Forgive Student Loan Debt to Stimulate the Economy
Private Student Loans: What Lenders Won’t Tell You | Broke Professionals
Private student loans can seem like a great alternative to federal loans. If you need to borrow more than the current annual federal limits , or if you have expenses beyond the cost of attending classes (vehicle repairs or a new computer, for example), private student loans offer a way to cover those costs without paying out of pocket. For college students , who tend to live on a limited budget, a private loan sounds like a responsible way to pay for necessities without resorting to credit cards.It is a well-known fact that children from affluent families tend to do better in school.
Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies Show - NYTimes.com
On Thursday, three months after Bank of America backed down from imposing a $5 monthly debit card fee in response to an online Change.org petition that collected 300,000 signers, Sallie Mae, the nation’s largest private student-loan provider, changed its fee policy in response to an online petition.
Sallie Mae to Change Forbearance Fee Policy - NYTimes.com
http://www.examiner.com/x-1760-Baltimore-Investing-Examiner~y2009m8d10-Higher-Education-Bubble-The-Next-Bubble-To-Burst Interesting article today, 10 Aug 2009, in the baltimore examiner, about the comming student loan bubble, and how it is about to burst. It's every investor's dream: buy into a theme before any one else has caught on; ride it all the way up until it gets bubbly; sell to the suckers who bought at the top.
Higher Ed Bubble to burst, Sallie Mae posed to take full advantage of it.
DIY U
No new elite world-class universities have been founded for at least 100 years (Stanford-1891; Rice-1912), and most of them are centuries older than that. Ben Nelson, former CEO of Snapfish, has just announced that he’s starting a new one, for-profit and online.