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Educate Yourself
- The Student Loan Trap One Pager, Freedom to Prosper
- The Macroeconomic Effects of Student Debt Cancellation, Ketlton et al., Levy Economics Institute
- Americans are drowning in student-loan debt. The U.S. should forgive all of it., Kristina vanden Heuval, The Washington Post
- A Case for Debt-Free College, Mark Huelsman, Demos
- Student Debt’s Grip on the Economy, The Editorial Board, The New York Times
- For the Student Debt Movement, Jubilee Is an Old Idea Made New, Roger Hickey, The Huffington Post
- Going Back to Class: Why We Need to Make University Free, and How We Can Do It, Samir Sonti, Nonsite.org
- Nobody Should Have to Pay to Go to College, Kenneth Warren and Samir Sonti, The Chronicle for Higher Education
- Why College Costs Keep Rising, ProgressReport/Demos
- Bernie Sanders’s ‘College for All’ Plan Is Fair, Smart and Achievable, Heather Gautney and Adolf Reed Jr., The Nation
- Nobody Should Have to Pay to Go to College, Kenneth W. Warren and Samir Sonti, Nonsite.org
- Going Back to Class: Why We Need to Make University Free, and How We Can Do It, Samir Sonti, Nonsite.org
- School inequity & disinvestment rob children of their future, Randi Weingarten, AFT
- The Hell of American Day Care, Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic
- The Costs of Childcare by State, EPI
- It’s time for an ambitious national investment in America’s children, Josh Bivens et al, EPI
- Democrats Can Win If They Lead on Education, Jeff Bryant, Our Future
- A Winning Political Issue Hiding in Plain Sight, David Leonhardt, New York Times
- The Unaffordable Era: A 50 State Look at Rising College Prices and the New American Student, Mark Huelsman, Demos
- High quality child care is out of reach for working families, Economic Policy Institute
- Research Summary: The Lifecycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program, Heckman
- WATCH: The Big Picture: Reinvent Education, Moveon
- WATCH: $0 is the Cost of Making Public Colleges Tuition Free, Slate
In the News
- “This Was About the Survival of Public Education,” LA Teachers Claim Victory After Week-Long Strike, Amy Goodman, Sarah Jaffe, Arlene Inouye, Democracy Now
- What the LA Teachers Won and How They Won It, Eric Blanc, The Nation
- The Debt Free College Act of 2018, Mark Huelsman and Vijay Das, Demos
- Listen: The Red State Revolt (Teachers Strikes), Best of the Left
- Watch: *This* is why Oklahoma teachers are on strike, NowThis
- Teachable Moments, Democrats Should Do More to Protect Teachers, Osita Nwanevu, Slate
- No Wonder Teachers Are Saying Enough Is Enough, Bryce Covert, The Nation
- Deep and Abiding Disrespect for Teachers, Leo Gerard, OurFuture.org
