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Increasing Student Debt: Big Picture 01/11/112
Reporter and blogger from Think Progress Marie Diamond talks about the growing tuition rates and student debt, while with a struggling economy, there are fewer jobs available for students to repay debt after college. She says that tuition is growing up so rapidly while family income is not keeping up, largely because republicans in congress keep voting to cut public funding because they think it should be a privatized industry.
Email this pageGRITtv: Student Organizing in the Age of Obama
The current stage of the recession sees state budgets hitting crisis points around the country, and one of the areas targeted for cuts has been state univerisities. Students, already dealing with prohibitive levels of debt, have been coming together to protest tuition hikes and budget cuts in some of the largest student protests since the 1960s. Is this a new era for student activism? Did the Obama campaign train young organizers to turn their skills onto their local campus, or is it just the pressure of paying the bills? Christian Ragland, Student President at Pennsylvania State University, and Angus Johnston, founder of StudentActivism.net, join us to discuss.
GRITtv: Paying Back Not Giving Back
President Obama promised better policies on student loans on the campaign trail, but as state budgets are suffering under the ongoing recession, students are seeing tuition skyrocket and are stuck with the loans. This video from Ramblin' Man Films looks at the growing movement for student loan justice.
GRITtv: The Taking of Wheeler Hall: University of California Protests
In California, the state budget crisis has led the legislature to propose a 32 percent increase in tuition for state schools. But students aren't willing - or in many cases, able - to bear the brunt of the money problems. Independent journalists Brandon Jourdan and Daniel Martinez were in California and caught this video when the students at UC Berkeley occupied Wheeler Hall, demanding not just lower tuition but fair treatment for immigrant-owned businesses on campus and rehiring union workers who had been laid off.
