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Borrowed to the Hilt

President Biden’s SAVE plan isn’t going to rescue the tens of millions of Americans that together owe more than $1.7 trillion.

by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via The Baffler on October 11, 2023

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American Higher Education’s Past Was Gilded, Not Golden

A missed opportunity for genuine equity.

by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via Academe on October 14, 2022

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Policymakers Created the Student Loan Industry — and The Debt Crisis

While they never intended for more than 45 million Americans to have this much debt, policymakers in the 1960s made fateful choices.

by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via Made By History on August 5, 2021

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The Right to Work Really Means the Right to Work for Less

Why business interests have spent 70+ years crusading for right-to-work laws.

by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via Made By History on April 24, 2018

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How Tax Policy Made College Unaffordable

The government’s failure to fully invest in higher education created our current crisis.

by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via Made By History on December 21, 2017

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