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Tag Archives: Student Loans
Establishment media’s mass deception
By Stephen Lendman Source: Intrepid Report On major geopolitical and other issues, mass deception overrides truth and full disclosure in establishment media print editions and daily broadcasts—wealth, power and privileged interests served over peace, equity and justice. The NYT is … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged corporate media, David Brooks, Education, empire, financial crisis, geopolitics, imperialism, Iran, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, MSM, NATO, New York Times, propaganda, Saudi Arabia, Socialism, Student Loans, Syria, venezuela, war
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‘Deaths of despair’ soaring among Gen Z & millennials: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’
By Helen Buyniski Source: RT.com Young Americans are killing themselves in record numbers, the victims of a confluence of economic and sociological factors that have singled them out – even above a nationwide surge in so-called “deaths of despair.” Suicide … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged addiction, Alcohol, America, Baby Boomers, culture, deaths of despair., depression, drugs, Economics, Education, financial crisis, Generation Z, Health, Journal of the American Medical Association, Labor, military spending, millennials, opioids, Pharmaceuticals, Poverty, recession, Social Media, society, Sociology, Student Debt, Student Loans, suicide, The American Dream, unemployment, war, Work
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The US Middle Class is Shrinking and Moving Towards a “Dual Economy”
MIT Economist Peter Temin, the author of “The Vanishing Middle Class,” explains how the US is moving towards two economies, one for the lower 80% and one for the upper 20% By Gregory Wilpert and Peter Temin Source: Real News … Continue reading
Posted in corporate news, culture, Dystopia, education, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, police state, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged Campaign Financing, College, Debt, Dual Economy, Economics, Elections, financial crisis, Infrastructure, Labor, Mass Incarceration, Middle Class, Peter Temin, Pew Research Center, Prisons, Public Education, Student Loans, The Vanishing Middle Class, Tuition, Voters, Work
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A New Lost Generation: Student Loans, Wage Slavery, and Debt Peonage
Dr. Nicholas Partyka Source: The Hampton Institute In literature, the term “lost generation” refers to a cohort of authors whose work defines the post-First World War era. This group includes literary notables like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, culture, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Recession, Social Control, society, Work
Tagged austerity, Debt Crisis, Debt Slavery, Debt Strike, Economic Bubble, economic crisis, Eurozone, Greece, Labor, Lost Generation, Over-Educated, Over-Qualified, Radicalization, recession, Student Debt, Student Loans, Work
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The Poverty Machine: Student Debt, Class Society, and Securing Bonded Labor
By Jeremy Brunger Source: The Hampton Institute At the dawn of the 20th century, very few American students attended high school, as the demands of the heavy-industrial and the agricultural economies of that period were ill-suited to an extended education … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, culture, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Recession, Social Control, society, Work
Tagged Corvee, Debt Bubble, Debt Crisis, Higher Education, Neoliberalism, Proletariat, Student Debt, Student Loans
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