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Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

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Borrowed to the Hilt

President Biden’s SAVE plan isn’t going to rescue the tens of millions of Americans that together owe more than $1.7 trillion.

by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via The Baffler on October 11, 2023
American Higher Education’s Past Was Gilded, Not Golden

A missed opportunity for genuine equity.

by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via Academe on October 14, 2022
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Policymakers Created the Student Loan Industry — and The Debt Crisis

While they never intended for more than 45 million Americans to have this much debt, policymakers in the 1960s made fateful choices.

by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via Made By History on August 5, 2021
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The Right to Work Really Means the Right to Work for Less

Why business interests have spent 70+ years crusading for right-to-work laws.

by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via Made By History on April 24, 2018
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How Tax Policy Made College Unaffordable

The government’s failure to fully invest in higher education created our current crisis.

by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via Made By History on December 21, 2017

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At nighttime, the levels inside the Milton S. Eisenhower Library light up the windows, showing stacks of books and the silhouettes of students working at tables and lounging at chairs, from A Level to B Level and M Level at the top, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1965.

The Education Factory

By looking at the labor history of academia, you can see the roots of a crisis in higher education that has been decades in the making.

by Erik Baker via The Nation on April 22, 2024

Student loan debt activists rally outside the White House a day after President Biden announced a plan that would cancel $10,000 in student loan debt for those making less than $125,000 a year in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 25, 2022.

The 50-Year Path That Left Millions Drowning in Student Loan Debt

How new student loan programs turned students into consumers — and ignited a competition among universities that left them drowning in debt.

by John R. Thelin via Made By History on September 13, 2022

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