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Debt-Free College

Our country is better when everyone, regardless of their background, has a pathway toward affordable, quality higher education. We show policymakers how to make debt-free college a reality for the most diverse generation of students in American history.
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Mark Huelsman

A Blueprint for College without Debt

A Policy and Messaging Guide for States to Make Higher Education Affordable Again
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It’s Time to Take Student Debt Cancellation and Debt Free College Seriously

Senator Elizabeth Warren just unveiled the first plan of the 2020 election cycle that comprehensively addresses both college affordability and student loan debt simultaneously.
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Mark Huelsman
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The College Scam Is Exposing All the Legal Ways Rich People Game Society

"I think this does pull back the curtain around some things that people intuitively know to be true—like, privilege tends to reproduce itself."
In the media
Alex Norcia
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State Universities Are Being Resegregated

If the goal is to resegregate higher education, the efforts have largely worked. Amid budget cuts and attacks on affirmative action, elite public colleges are enrolling fewer black students than they were a generation ago.
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