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More by Tamara Draut

The New Frugality: No Passing Fad
New York Times Room for Debate | March 10, 2009

The Fix We're In: Tamara Draut on "The Deregulatory Impulse"
CW Unbound | October 21, 2008

Need a Kidney? There's a Credit Card for That
AlterNet | June 11, 2008


Up to Our Eyeballs
How Shady Lenders and Failed Economic Policies are Drowning Americans in Debt
Up to Our Eyeballs


Strapped
Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead
Strapped

June 28, 2008
Live Blogging (Sort of) Hearing on Students and Credit Card Debt
Daily Kos
By Tamara Draut

That's right. The Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit of the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing today on credit card marketing to college students. And even though I know a lot of you in the C-SPAN set were watching the streaming feed on theCommittee web site, I'm here to give a blow-by-blow account of the proceedings for anyone who may have missed it.

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