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Who Is Getting Rich Off the $1.3 Trillion Student Debt Crisis?
June 29, 2016

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Topics: Student Debt

Guests: James Steele, veteran investigative reporter and Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist. His recent article for Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting is titled "Who Got Rich Off the Student Debt Crisis."

We continue our conversation looking at student debt. A stunning 42 million people now owe $1.3 trillion in student debt. A new investigative report published by Center for Investigative Reporting peels back the layers on this trillion-dollar industry. The article, titled "Who Got Rich Off the Student Debt Crisis," follows what happened after the federal government relinquished direct control of the student loan program and opened it up to banks and profit-making corporations. We speak to Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist James Steele and Saul Newton, who was profiled in the article. Saul dropped out of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point because of rising costs and student debt.

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Who got rich off the student debt crisis?

42 million people owe $1.3 trillion in student debt.
It’s a profit center for Wall Street and the government. Here’s how we got into this mess.

A generation ago, Congress privatized a student loan program intended to give more Americans access to higher education.

In its place, lawmakers created another profit center for Wall Street and a system of college finance that has fed the nation’s cycle of inequality. Step by step, Congress has enacted one law after another to make student debt the worst kind of debt for Americans – and the best kind for banks and debt collectors.

Today, just about everyone involved in the student loan industry makes money off students – the banks, private investors, even the federal government.

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“This is also an award for all bad paid textile workers!”

This was Frida’s opening phrase of her speech after we were called out as winners of The Golden Screen for Best Reality 2015 yesterday. In front of a packed Grieg Hall in Bergen and to the entire Norwegian population that followed the show on TV2, Frida continued by thanking Sokty and all the others who helped us to create the series, before she finished to great acclaim from the television elite in the audience: “And thanks to everyone else who fight for a better world!”

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