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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)

http://act.boldprogressives.org/sign/sign_wallstreet_bankerjail/?source=tw-3-occupy
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marylandicga | We Are The 99%

The National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA) recently published a survey in which they gathered information about student loans via an online survey.
http://occupystudentdebt.com/

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. http://forgivestudentloandebt.com/

Forgive Student Loan Debt to Stimulate the Economy | Forgive Student Loan Debt to Stimulate the Economy

http://brokeprofessionals.com/2011/08/31/private-student-loans-what-lenders-wont-tell-you/

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. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/education/education-gap-grows-between-rich-and-poor-studies-show.html?pagewanted=all

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.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/education/sallie-mae-to-change-forbearance-fee-policy.html
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. http://timeline-gls.blogspot.com/2009/08/higher-ed-bubble-to-burst-sallie-mae.html

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. http://diyubook.com/

Occupy Tracking » Tim Libert Writing

Major advertisers and corporations have been quietly tracking the online movements of those visiting “Occupy Wall Street” related sites for months. They have have used this data to create detailed portraits of the lives and interests of potential protestors.