“The fact that you have government-guaranteed student loans has created a whole new sector in the American economy that didn't really exist before - private for-profit universities that sell junk degrees that don't help the students. They promise the students, "We'll help you get a better job. We'll arrange a loan so that you don't have to pay a penny for this education." Their pet bank gets them the government-guaranteed loan, and the student may get the junk degree, but doesn't get a job, so they don't pay the loan.” MayWholeFactsHelpingGovernmentJobsPayEconomyStudentsPromiseDegreesSellsUniversityProfitPetLoanPenniesJunkBetter JobsStudent LoanAmerican Economy Author:Michael Hudson
“I've said that we're going to produce real results for the American people because so many Americans feel left out and left behind, they think the economy has failed them, they think our government has failed, they can't stand the gridlock and dysfunction in our politics, and I'm determined to produce more good jobs with rising incomes, and deal with all of the concerns that families have about education, college affordability, student debt.” PeopleThinkingFeelsSaidRealGovernmentJobsLeftResultsDealsBehindsEconomyStudentsProduceCollegeConcernDebtDeterminedIncomeRisingGood JobLeft BehindLeft OutDysfunctionGridlockAffordability Author:Hillary Clinton
“[Young people] can't do much with [student debt] other than try to figure out how to pay it down. They can't take jobs they want. They can't get the credit they would like to start a business. So we're going to refinance it, we're going move people into income-contingent repayment plans, we're going to have a date certain when their obligations end, and I'm not going to let the government harass kids.” PeopleWantTryingEndsGovernmentKidsJobsMovingYoungCertainPayPlansFiguresStudentsCreditDebtIncomeObligationRepaymentRefinance Author:Hillary Clinton
“Without the jobs being available to enable them to repay that [student-loan] debt in the course of their financial lifetimes, basically.We maintain that, yes, that's a significant chunk of change - it's $1.3 trillion - but what investment is more worth making than in a generation that does not have a future?” DoeJobsCoursesGenerationsStudentsLifetimeInvestmentFinancialAvailableDebtSignificantLoanChunksStudent Loan Author:Jill Stein
“Seventy-eight percent of millennials are worried about not having enough good paying job opportunity to pay off their student loans. Seventy-four percent can't pay the health care if they get sick. Seventy-nine percent don't have enough money to live when they retire. So, already, we're having a whole generation that's coming on, not only here but also in Europe, that isn't able to get good-paying jobs.” IfsEnoughWholeCareAbleJobsOpportunityPayFourGenerationsStudentsPercentEuropeSickEightNineHealth CareWorriedRetiringSeventiesLoanMillennialsStudent LoanJob Opportunities Author:Michael Hudson
“I think we're at a really unique moment right now because the American people are waking up to the fact that it is a race to the bottom between these two corporate parties that are sending jobs overseas, putting downward pressure on wages, starving people out of healthcare, locking an entire generation into unpayable predatory student loan debt.” PeopleThinkingTwoMomentsFactsJobsPartyRaceGenerationsStudentsRight NowUniqueWake UpPressureBottomDebtCorporateWakingHealthcareWagesLoanStarvingPredatoryStudent Loan Author:Jill Stein
“The jobs that have come back have been extremely insecure low-wage benefit poor temporary jobs. Young people are screwed. They don't have a way to pay off their debt. And when they discover that they could come out and vote Green to cancel that debt, that I am the one candidate who will bail out the students like we bailed out the crooks on Wall Street, then it becomes an irresistible motivation to actually come out and vote Green.” PeopleWayHas BeensJobsYoungMotivationPoorPayStreetsStudentsWallBenefitsLowsVoteGreenDebtCandidatesTemporaryInsecureIrresistibleCrooksBail Author:Jill Stein
“They came to this country they, they were Hungarians, they were Communists from a Communist country. And right now those Hungarian freedom fighters can get jobs that student sit-ins can't get. They can go and sleep and live in hotels that Martin Luther King himself can't live in.They are recognized and respected because they are fighters, not because they are sit-iners or freedom.” CountryJobsSleepStudentsKingsRight NowFighterHotelCommunistLutherFreedom FighterHungarians Author:Malcolm X
“I got a job as the Visuals Art's Teacher at my Alma Mata, St. Mary's College. Then my interests shifted to animation. Ironically, it was one of my students who sparked this energy in me by introducing me to an animation program called FLASH. So I dabbled and played around with it.” ArtJobsEnergyInterestTeacherStudentsCollegeProgramVisualsMaryIntroducingFlashAnimation Author:St. Lucia
“Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line.” IfsJobsLinesBreakTeacherStudentsTestsBreaking Down Author:Raheem Jarbo
“You [young people] all are just much more internationally-minded and traveled and knowledgeable in languages than any other previous generation. So many of you are already doing a lot of international relations, I think. I so believe in student networks, and people that either study abroad or come to the United States to study, and the relationships that you all develop. You learn a lot from each other, but you all will see each other again in jobs along the way. And I think that makes a big difference. I so believe in what students can do.” PeopleThinkingWayBelieveStatesBigsJobsYoungLanguageCan DoDifferencesUnitedUnited StatesStudyGenerationsStudentsRelationInternationalTraveledInternational RelationsKnowledgeablePrevious GenerationsStudy Abroad Author:Madeleine Albright
“I think it's a real shame so many schools have taken out the hands-on classes. Art, music, auto mechanics, cooking, sewing, these are all things that can turn into jobs. You know, wood shop, steel shop, welding. These are all things that can turn into great careers, get kids interested. Things they can do with other students. Other things for our word thinkers: journalism clubs, drama clubs.” ThinkingKnowsArtRealHandsKidsSchoolJobsTurnsCan DoClassCareersTakenStudentsDramaAll ThingsShameCookingClubsWoodsJournalismShopsThinkerSteelMechanicOur WordsSewingArt MusicWeldingAuto MechanicDrama Club Author:Temple Grandin
“People are hungry, and they're hurting and they're very, very worried about their children. Will their kids ever pay off their student debt? Will their kids ever get a decent-paying job? I think Democrats have got to be running a grass-roots campaign - mobilizing people and being prepared to take on the 1 percent with an agenda that speaks to the needs of ordinary workers.” PeopleThinkingNeedsChildrenRunningKidsJobsSpeakHurtPayStudentsOrdinaryPercentRootsPreparedDemocratWorkersDebtCampaignsHungryWorriedGrassDecentAgendas Author:Bernie Sanders
“A smart politician needs to come in and create a plan for when our students graduate college, there are opportunities in fields that interest them and a job that's a career. A president whose plans can embrace and incorporate every millennial will be successful.” NeedsJobsOpportunityPresidentInterestCareersSuccessfulPlansFieldsStudentsCollegePoliticianSmartEmbraceBeing SuccessfulGraduatesMillennials Author:Soledad O'Brien
“I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this chance to have a job pass me by. I went out and learned and I stayed one step ahead of the students by reading and I got to be pretty proficient at throwing on the wheel and making my own glazes, ordering the chemicals and having the students go out and dig and process their clay, and doing things that they weren't teaching at Howard University. So Talladega College opened up my whole sensibility about experimental teaching.” ArtWholeJobsCoursesReadingProcessChanceMy OwnStepsTeachingStudentsCollegeUniversityWheelsChemicalsThrowingSensibilityClayArt EducationCeramics Author:David C. Driskell