Student Debt

Michael Leachman: Tuition costs are rising as states respond to the recession by cutting public funding to higher education, with cuts averaging 28 percent on a per pupil basis.

It would cost less for the government to make all public universities tuition-free than what the government already spends in higher education.

Even the limited ways out of student debt obligations are often not available in practice thanks to the hyper-aggressive conduct of a critical government contractor.

Education expert Henry Giroux tells Bill public schools are suffering from an overemphasis on academic testing as teachers are stripped of their powers, in schools with disciplinary systems that …

The American electorate fails to realize it must unite to solve a skyrocketing educational cost and student debt problem that other nations solved a hundred or more years ago, …

The mainstream media's common refrain - that the economic problems that young people face are the product of generational laziness and a sense of entitlement u2013 fails to report …

u201cFix the Debtu201d and its pet youth group, The Can Kicks Back, have been caught writing op-eds for college students and placing the identical articles in papers across the …

If a bad job market wasnu2019t damaging enough, the cost of paying off student loans does much more harm to the long-term prospects of young people than is commonly …

As student debt skyrockets, the movement to resist it is spreading.

Like other corporations, the university system makes a killing off part time workers and in turn, we are in debt for life.