Remarks on Student Loan Debt

Remarks on Student Loan Debt

One of the fundamental strengths of our nation is its ability to raise up educated young people to meet the challenges facing us in the 21st Century. As we face a $1 trillion student debt crisis in this country, it is imperative that we understand how we got into this situation, and how we need to re-prioritize in order to get out of it.

When our parents went to college, they could afford to work a minimum wage job to make ends meet, get a decent …

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Education: The Fleeting American Dream?

The idea for this video came to me after I had a conversation with a friend who was contemplating the reality of paying her student loans at the rate of $1200 per month for thirty years. She has a PhD in a highly competitive field. Many of the tenure track jobs in her field are disappearing as colleges and universities are hiring an increasing number of adjunct professors. Hers is only one of literally hundreds of stories I have heard about people from middle class …

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