Episode Details

Last Monday, Representatives Ilhan Omar, Pramila Jayapal, and Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled the Student Debt Cancellation Act of 2019, which includes a plan to wipe out the $1.6 trillion in student debt held by 45 million Americans. In this this special episode, we talk to Ami Schneider and Sanders Fabares, two debt holders and graduates from the for-profit Art Institute college chain who decided to fight back and get involved in anti-debt organizing through the Debt Collective. 

Additional links/info below...

• The Debt Collective website, Facebook page, and Twitterpage
• Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, "Bernie Sanders Teamed Up With Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal on a Plan to Cancel All Student Loan Debt"
• Astra Taylor, The Guardian, "Free College and Debt Forgiveness Are Within Our Grasp. Don't Settle for Less"
• Sarah Jaffe, The Washington Post, "The People Power Behind Sanders's Debt Cancellation Plan"
• Marshall Steinbaum, Current Affairs, "Is Student Debt Cancellation Regressive? NO"
• Sparky Abraham, Current Affairs, "How Student Debt Is Worsening Gender and Racial Injustice"
• Casey Quinlan, ThinkProgress, "Why Graduates Of For-Profit Colleges Are Struggling To Pay Back Student Loans"
• Tressie McMillan Cottom, The New Press, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy 
• Alex Shebanow, Fail State (documentary) 

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"