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Jun 04

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// We first set out to cover the student-debt story last year when we read David Graeber's book, "Debt: The First 5000 Years" and listened to him speak (online). Graeber was pushing a proposal for mass repudiation…

Vassar College Commencement on May 20 in Poughkeepsie, New York. Photo by Paul Zimmerman/Getty Images. By Paul Solman and Elizabeth Shell In researching the growing amount of college loan debt that students are taking on as academic sticker prices…

Vassar College Commencement on May 20 in Poughkeepsie, New York. Photo by Paul Zimmerman/Getty Images. In researching the growing amount of college loan debt that students are taking on as academic sticker prices steadily increase, we wondered: Is it…