Join us on July 31 as we host a deep dive discussion into two related crises facing higher ed workers and students alike: debt and labor contingency. Often presented as both institutionally inevitable and as individually shameful, spiraling debt and rising labor precarity are in fact insidious products of policy decisions, and together they are […]
Part of ourAround the country, school districts are facing budget crises. As K-12 Covid funding runs out, teachers, students, and communities find their district leadership cutting programs, firing them or their colleagues, and even closing schools. Local journalists, if they cover these stories, merely take notes on what district leadership says, taking it as the simple truth. […]
Part of ourLast month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released proposed regulations to ban medical debt from credit reports. This is BIG NEWS – it’s the result of years of organizing and public pressure, and it’s a move that would help millions of debtors across the country. But it’s not a done deal yet. Join the Debt […]
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Join us for an event with Nora Kenworthy, author of Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare, to learn how crowdfunding for health is fueled by—and further reinforces—financial and moral “toxicities” in market-based healthcare systems. Over the past decade, charitable crowdfunding has exploded in popularity across the globe. Sites such as GoFundMe, which now […]
Part of ourA teach-in on the financial, moral, and educational obligations of a shuttered university During this teach-in members of Debt Collective and authors of Lend and Rule will examine the debt realities of University of the Arts (Philadelphia), and engage in dialogue with participants about what the university owes, or doesn’t, to students, faculty, staff, community […]
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