For-profit education

Occupy Wall Street demonstrators wear signs around their neck representing their student debt during a protest against the rising national student debt in New York on April 25, 2012.

‘If you owe the bank $1 trillion, you own the bank,’ say student debtors who are fighting back

Education

The number of college graduates with debt is rising quickly, and some students have had enough. A group known as the Corinthian 15 say they’re going on a “debt strike,” hoping to force action to cancel the debts they owe to a for-profit education company — and spur broader change.

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Students defaulting on many loans at for-profit colleges

Work at Wal-Mart, earn college credit

The for-profit college swindle

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Student debt higher at for-profit colleges