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  • Student Debt Slavery II: Time to Level the Playing Field

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    Student Debt Slavery II: Time to Level the Playing Field   Ellen Brown http://EllenBrown.com January 5, 2018   This is the second in a two-part article on the debt burden America’s students face. Read Part 1 here. The lending business is heavily stacked against student borrowers. Bigger players can borrow for almost nothing, and if their…

  • Student Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers on the Backs of the Young

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      Ellen Brown http://EllenBrown.com December 26, 2017     Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into a lucrative cash cow for private investors.   The advantages of slavery by debt over “chattel” slavery – ownership of humans as a property right – were set out in an infamous document called the Hazard Circular, reportedly…