Widespread Wage Garnishing To Pay Debts From Past Decades

"Elizabeth Warren's Needed Call For Student Debt Reform"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/elizabeth-warrens-needed-call-for.html

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Bankruptcy law does not permit the cancellation of student loan debt. 

Ever.

Increasing numbers of Americans go to their graves shackled by student debt. 

Conservatives think such debt peonage instills personal responsibility.

As is customary, there is no upside to right-wing moralizing unless the prissy pleasure of finger-pointing is a favorable outcome.

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It costs $30,000.00 a year to incarcerate an American.

http://thelawdictionary.org/article/what-is-the-average-cost-to-house-inmates-in-prison/

There is plenty of money for punishment but precious little for society's most important investment.

At minimum, the nation could build upon the "service-for-education model" employed by the U.S. military, America's favorite institution.

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Unseen toll: Wages of millions get seized to pay past debts. 

Paul Kiel in ProPublica and Chris Arnold in NPR.