Our current system for collecting student loans makes no distinction between deadbeats who cheat and the much greater numbers of people who just don’t have the money to repay. As predatory debt collection agencies ruin the lives of more and more Americans, we are ignoring an easy and fair solution.
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Posted inEconomy, Education, Higher Education, July/August 2012, Magazine
The Assets Between Your Ears
The new movement to give college credit for the things you already know.
Posted inEconomy, Government, July/August 2012, Magazine
Introduction: Jobs Are Not Enough
More than any election in living memory, the 2012 race is shaping up to be about one thing: jobs. Pundits are convinced that the rate of job growth between now and November is the magic number that will determine the outcome. The main policies the candidates are debating—whether to cut taxes or raise them on […]
Posted inEconomy, July/August 2012, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
The Slow-Motion Collapse of American Entrepreneurship
The experts tell us new business start-ups will save the American economy. So how come there are fewer and fewer of them?
Posted inEconomy, Education, K-12, Magazine, May/June 2012
The Twilight of the Civic-minded CEO
The staggeringly high regard in which Americans once held Fortune 500 CEOs has certainly diminished in recent years. Back in the day, when they could fairly be described as “job creators,” CEOs were treated like folk heroes—think Jack Welch of GE or Lee Iacocca of Chrysler. But during the 2000s, U.S. multinationals have shed nearly […]
Posted inEconomy, January/February 2012, Magazine
The Myth of American Productivity
Politicians say we have the most productive workers in the world. They don’t know what they’re talking about.
Posted inEconomy, Government, Health Care, Magazine, November/December 2011
Shovel-Ready Clinics
A job creation idea so obviously good even Washington couldn’t possibly say no… could it?
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2011
Is Our Students Earning?
A new way of measuring how different colleges pay off in the long run.
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, March/April 2010, Politics, The Monopolized Economy
Who Broke America’s Jobs Machine?
Why creeping consolidation is crushing American livelihoods.
