Tag: loans
We can do so much more on student loan forgiveness
The administration still has time to take real action on student loan debt, but they need to get moving.
Is the run on the dollar due to panic or greed?
The banks could not function without public support. They should be turned into public utilities.
Student Debt: A Penalty the Poor Pay for Not Being Wealthy
There are two options for our future generations: get an education and agree to inescapable debt, or don’t get an education and the possibility of employment goes out the window. Student debt has become a trap.
Debt Buyers Bury Hard-Hit Consumers in Lies
Millions of Americans have been hit hard and now find themselves swimming in consumer debt. A new scam has 1 in 7 struggling adults in the U.S. under pursuit by debt collectors. These predator corporations are ending any hope of recovery.
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Treasury refuses to close private jet tax loophole senators call a giveaway to billionaires
The formula values a flight from New York to Washington at $236, against a fair market cost of up to $5,112
Federal panel halts first AI data center approved on US public land
The board found regulators treated an 88.5-acre data center as barely different from the solar farm it was supposed to replace.
California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration
More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
Casino workers strike at Encore Boston Harbor after contract talks stall
More than 1,300 Teamsters and UNITE HERE members walked out after voting 97 percent to authorize the strike
25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.