There’s a lot being blamed on student debt these days. Millennials are taking longer to buy houses or start families because of it. The economy is staggering under the $1.5 trillion burden. It’s no wonder that not one but two Democrats in the presidential race are promising to wipe it all away. Still, it’s too […]
Student Debt
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Footing the free college bill
Americans generally have a poor understanding of how higher education is financed and start their own planning too late.
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Degrees of debt
Melissa Nicholson had a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in education, and zero job prospects. “I discovered I couldn’t get a job just being certified to teach elementary school,” she says. “But I thought, ‘Even though I’m swamped in loans already, there’s no way I can turn back now that I’ve come this far.’” Nicholson, […]
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The zombie class
The current political debate may seem like it’s about jobs, taxes, and the national debt. But what Americans are really experiencing is a philosophical crisis involving the middle class, said Stephen Shapiro, a professor of English at the University of Warwick in Britain. The crisis is revealed, he said, in the zombie film craze. Much […]
