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Solving America's Student Debt Problem
The collapse of the for-profit Corinthian Colleges may cost American taxpayers $3.6 billion — even as declining taxpayer support has driven tuition sky high at public universities. Student debt is more than a trillion dollars, and it's already an issue in next year's presidential campaigns.
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenThe collapse of the for-profit Corinthian Colleges may cost American taxpayers $3.6 billion — even as declining taxpayer support has driven tuition sky high at public universities. Student debt is more than a trillion dollars, and it's already an issue in next year's presidential campaigns.
Also, political horse-trading goes into overdrive for a trade deal vote. On today's Talking Point, a 6-year old American citizen who refuses to speak is collateral damage from policies that require her undocumented parents to leave the country. We hear about "American Exiles and Orphans."
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3 storiesPolitical Horse-Trading Goes into Overdrive for Trade Deal Vote
Fast track authority for free trade with Asian countries has been lobbied harder by the Obama White House than anything since the Affordable Care Act. The voting begins today, with unlikely coalitions on both sides. Reid Wilson is chief political correspondent for Morning Consult , a political newsletter.
Read the story7 minStudent Debt Is Out of Control: Is it Ever OK to Default?
For baby boomers, the big issue was war and peace. For millennials it's student debt. That's according to a poll by Harvard University . With the average amount owed about $35,000, the total burden is more than a trillion dollars for college and graduate school for some 40 million Americans, — all of whom are old enough to vote.
Read the story33 minThe Collateral Damage of the Immigration Debate
This may be a "nation of immigrants," but unauthorized immigrants are no longer welcomed as “huddled masses yearning to be free. When their US-born children live in fear that their parents will be deported, they are collateral damage from harsh new policies.
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