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The Student Debt Crisis is Everyone’s Problem
Originally posted by Robert Applebaum and The Student Nation in The Student Nation With interest rates on federally subsidized Stafford Loans set to double on July 1, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, student debt has finally started getting the attention it deserves. Unfortunately, most of the coverage of the metastasizing student debt crisis fails [...]
Guest Post: Examine Student Loan Proposals as Rates Set to Double
Borrowed from Young Invincibles – Originally posted by Isaac Bowers of Equal Justice Works in U.S. News & World Report. In a deja vu moment, the interest rates on subsidized Federal Direct loans are set to double on July 1 and Congress is scrambling to find a fix. The Student Loan Ranger thinks there will be one – given [...]
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, [...]
Tweet Your Representative #DontDoubleMyRate and #DreamsNotDebt!
We have compiled a list of every Representative and their Twitter profiles. Have you told YOUR Representative #DontDoubleMyRate? Click below to tweet your own Rep and say #DontDoubleMyRate!
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 [...]
