by Mary Green Swig | Steven L. Swig | Richard Eskow | Mar 21, 2017 | Blog
MARY GREEN SWIG STEVEN L. SWIG RICHARD ESKOW The election of 2016 forced us, like so many Americans, to reconsider much of what we imagined we knew about our country and our society. For example, only a few months ago there was a growing, nation-wide movement for...
by Mary Green Swig | Steven L. Swig | Richard Eskow | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog, Education, Student Debt Relief
Mary Green Swig Steven L. Swig Richard Eskow Once upon a time this country thought big. We survived the Great Depression, fought the Second World War, rebuilt Europe on the Marshall Plan … and provided tuition-free education for college students. Ask anybody from that...
by Mary Green Swig | Steven L. Swig | Richard Eskow | May 8, 2015 | Blog, Education
MaryGreenSwig Steven L.Swig RichardEskow “The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it.” – John Adams, 1785 Momentum is building for an exciting “new” idea, one which is in fact far older than...
by Mary Green Swig | Steven L. Swig | Richard Eskow | Mar 16, 2015 | Blog, Education
MaryGreenSwig Steven L.Swig RichardEskow Last month the “Corinthian 15,” in collaboration with the Debt Collective, announced that they would not pay the debts they had accrued while enrolled at schools run by the for-profit corporation called “Corinthian Colleges...
by Mary Green Swig | Steven L. Swig | Richard Eskow | Jan 27, 2015 | Blog, Education
MaryGreenSwig Steven L.Swig RichardEskow President Obama's proposal for tuition-free community college education, and the broader discussion that it has inspired, confirms our belief that it is time for a comprehensive solution to a $1.3 trillion problem: student debt...
