March 2012
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Please Sign Rep. Clarke's New Bill: The Student...
Go the Petition right here !!
Please help to stop America’s 21st century...
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Why all this debt? Because banksters infiltrated...
What is needed is not blind subservience to the banksters and millionaire-run, corrupt colleges, what’s needed is a new higher educational system that is not designed to fleece people and put them in lifelong debt.
Clearly the current educational system has been infiltrated and taken over by the banksters and others with a Neoliberal, corporatist agenda. They have locked down 95% of the...
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After completing my first semester at the University of Michigan in 2001, I was assaulted and suffered a closed head / mild traumatic brain injury. It was recommended by my doctors that I continue with school – exercising my brain was the best chance I had at recovering. And so, I went right back to Michigan.
In my following semesters there, I struggled in my classes. I began to lose...
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Total Payments made—-4,527.82
Original loan—-40160.27
Outstanding balance—-35344.56
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After completing my first semester at the University of Michigan in 2001, I was assaulted and suffered a closed head / mild traumatic brain injury. It was recommended by my doctors that I continue with school – exercising my brain was the best chance I had at recovering. And so, I went right back to Michigan.
In my following semesters there, I struggled in my classes. I began to lose...
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Can everyone tweet this below?
Live Senate Hearing on Private Loans & For-Profit Schools. http://t.co/MZRew0U9 #ForgiveStudentLoanDebt #studentloans #occupystudentdebt
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white collar robbery
I started paying my student loan in 2006 a year before I graduated. I borrowed $19,000. I never missed a payment until this past August when all my money ran out. ( been out of work since 2009)….They say I owe $18,000 now. I paid a total of $10,000 on the loan….I was put into Ed Financial….So I paid $9,000 interest and a thousand principle. My payment was $154.00 a month but I...
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Citibank - Ruining Lives
A terrorist organization has nothing on Citibank.
I co-signed the private student loans for both of my children with no doubt in my mind at the time that they would be able to re-pay the loans. Then 2008 happened. My daughter graduated in 2010 with a BFA; my son completed his Masters the same year.
The only job my daughter has had since her graduation is in a retail art supply store at $10 an...
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Senior Citizen and Handicapped to Boot!!l
My original loan was $11,000 back in 1987 and 1988!! Now, the balance with interest and penalties is over $49,000!! Wow!! What a Difference of $39,000!! I am currently living off of Social Security of $1,100 a month with my rent of almost one-half tat $500 a month.
Social Security is currently garnishing my wages for $165 leaving me with only $935 to live off with one half going to rent...
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Will I ever be employed
Interesting Data on Overall Student Loan Debt...
The New York Federal Reserve has published this very informative study of student loan debt, titled “Grading Student Loans,” breaking it out by age group, amount owed, percentage delinquent, etc. It can be found here:
http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2012/03/grading-student-loans.html
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NYC Premiere of "For Profit" This Weekend! |... →
Following the Tuesday, March 13th show, Robert Applebaum (ForgiveStudentLoanDebt.com) will be participating in a panel discussion and Q&A session along with several other well-known student loan reform activists, so if you’re interested in seeing the Talk-Back session as well as the show, you should book your tickets for March 13th. It should be a great show!
Buy your tickets today!...
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Adjunct with over $100,000.00 in Stafford loans.
I have a Master’s Degree and over $100,000.00 in student loans. The interest on my loans is approximately $600.00 per month. At the present my loans are in economic deferment. I am an adjunct professor at a community college. I make $1750.00 per class, per semester; after taxes that is about $1550.00. Thus, in a sixteen week semester –five months if I teach two classes I will take home...
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“So when I decided to go off to college, I was definitely naive about the whole...”
– sent to via email from Leah. Do you want to tell YOUR story??? Email us: Usury@OccupyStudentDebt.org or click here to post it to the queue: http://occupystudentdebt.com/submit
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