Nov 26, 2021

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STUDENT LOANS

An Open Letter to College Students about the Debt Crisis in Higher Education

Higher education in America is in freefall.

John Martin, “Book 12 Line 641.” Public domain via The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dear Students ,

In case nobody has told you, higher education in America is in freefall. It has succumbed to the morally corrosive panic created by its current funding model.

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