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NY Times: Student Debt Slows Growth as Young Spend Less
The anemic economy has left millions of younger working Americans struggling to get ahead. The added millstone of student-loan debt, which recently exceeded $1 trillion in total, is making it even harder for many of them, delaying purchases of things like homes, cars and other big-ticket items and acting as a drag on growth, economists [...]
CNN Money: Student Debt Delays Spending, Saving – and Marriage
About three-quarters of student loan borrowers surveyed said they — or their children — have been forced to make sacrifices in order to keep up with student loan payments, according to a survey from the American Institute of CPAs. Forty-one percent of the more than 200 people surveyed said they have delayed saving for retirement, [...]
Petition in Favor of The Student Loan Fairness Act Reaches 200,000 Signatures
Staten Island, NY April 11, 2013 Student Debt Crisis, a non-profit advocacy group, announces that its petition in favor of H.R. 1330, The Student Loan Fairness Act, reached 200,000 signatures in less than 3 weeks. The bill seeks to address the looming student debt crisis by creating a new repayment and forgiveness plan Student Debt [...]
STUDENT DEBT CRISIS EMPOWERS STUDENT BORROWERS; ALLOWS VOTERS TO DECIDE WINNER OF VIDEO CONTEST
DATE: September 18, 2012 FROM: Kyle McCarthy M: (415) 483-9191 E: Kyle@StudentDebtCrisis.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE STUDENT DEBT CRISIS EMPOWERS STUDENT BORROWERS; ALLOWS VOTERS TO DECIDE WINNER OF VIDEO CONTEST [NEW YORK--NY] Student Debt Crisis (formerly, ForgiveStudentLoanDebt.com), is empowering the public to choose the winner of their student debt story video contest. Those interested in voting, [...]
Vote for SDC Co-Founder Natalia Abrams For a DFA Scholarship to Netroots Nation ’13!
Click here to cast your vote for Natalia! From the DFA/NN Website: My political story I majored in Gender Studies at UCLA which gave me a strong activist foundation. After protesting UC tuition increases at UCLA, in 2009, I helped start Occupy Colleges in 2011which led to co-founding Student Debt Crisis. I helped with the [...]
Vote for SDC Co-Founder Kyle McCarthy For a DFA Scholarship to Netroots Nation ’13!
Click here to cast your vote for Kyle. From the DFA/NN website: My political story My personal political involvement has mostly focused around addressing student loan reform and the way in which higher education is paid for in America. On this issue, I have worked with organizations such as the Backbone Campaign, Change.org, and co-founded [...]
