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“The decline in state funding for state colleges and universities is the main driver of what’s increasing costs,” says Mark Huelsman, senior policy analyst at Demos, a liberal think tank. He’s the author of a 2014 proposal for increasing public higher education funding that he says has drawn
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Brianna McGurran
We need a systematic approach to tackle the student-debt crisis. We can easily find one if we look in the not-too-distant past.
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Heather C. McGhee
Is President Obama the scold of black America or its empathetic prophet? With his remarks at the funeral for the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney a week ago, Mr. Obama looked out onto a sea of mostly black faces — under the gaze of the nation — and addressed the topic of racism head-on. “For too long, we
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The 2016 election will be decided not just by who votes but by who stays home.
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Sean McElwee
The most sacred right in our democracy is the right to vote. In the next week, Delaware has the opportunity to make that right stronger than ever before.
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Heather McGhee
Policy makers are also exploring ways to maintain a safety net for seniors with defaulted student loans, while still ensuring the Education Department gets the money it’s owed. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and McCaskill, Democrats from Massachusetts and Missouri, respectively, sent a letter to the GAO
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Jillian Berman
European countries also differ substantively from the US in terms of the percentage of college attendees that their debt free models serve. “Germany has a lower percentage of students go on to college than we have here in the US,” Mark Huelsman, a senior policy analyst at think tank Demos, told ATTN
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Abby Jackson
Demos, in proud partnership with fellow racial equity organizations, released the following statement about the King v. Burwell Supreme Court ruling: "We, the undersigned organizations working to advance racial justice and health equity in the United States, are pleased that the U.S. Supreme Court
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To the delight of many black residents in Charleston, South Carolina, Gov. Nikki Haley on Monday called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the state's capitol grounds.
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Today, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld that the discrimination cases under the Fair Housing Act do not need to show explicit discrimination, but can include “disparate impact” claims. This is an essential and necessary provision for the fight for racial equity.
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Sean McElwee