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digital college with a yellow background and black all-caps sans serif text that reads "Debt" takes up the lower center left. Digital illustrations of three protesters stand with their backs to the front are under the "Debt" text, and a black-and-white photograph of a Black woman with short hair curly hair takes up the right side of the collage. from the top left, a dotted line curls on itself and has "student debt" in black letters curling with it
Posted inEconomy & Workers' Rights

A degree or a debt sentence?

by Maddy Clifford May 4th, 2023May 4th, 2023

My diploma wasn’t my ticket out of poverty. It only marked the beginning of my descent into debt

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