Investigate This Tenement Talk: The College Debt Crisis
Continuing our monthly series of Investigate This Tenement Talks, ProPublica will be hosting a November conversation about “The College Debt Crisis: Where We Are, What Needs to Change.” The panel discussion will feature ProPublica’s education reporter Marian Wang, who recently reported on “How the Government Is Saddling Parents with College Loans They Can’t Afford.” Joining her will be New York University’s Vice President of Enrollment Management Randall Deike, college assistance website (FinAid.com and FastWeb.com) publisher Mark Kantrowitz and the director of the director of the National Consumer Law Center's Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project Deanne Loonin. NY1’s education reporter, Lindsey Christ, will moderate the talk.
The conversation will focus on what schools, students, families and the government can do to help people get a good education without incurring too much debt. They’ll be discussing how families can make better decisions about financial aid, and what colleges and the government could and should be doing to ease the debt burden on students and families.
The event will take place on Monday, November 12 at 6:30pm at the Tenement Museum, located at 103 Orchard Street (at Delancey) in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The talk will last for 90 minutes and will be streamed live on UStream. There will be a Q&A portion with the audience and online viewers are encouraged to tweet questions with the hashtag #investigatethis.
Investigate This Tenement Talks are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served. We hope to see you there.
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4 comments
Ken
Oct. 24, 2012, 5:37 p.m.
Sounds like a great forum with awesome guests. I have got to go.
clarence swinney
Oct. 26, 2012, 11:35 a.m.
ROMNEYILK
Are Romney and Ryan the kinds of people we want in charge?- Those like Bush but worse? Criminals and thieves? Romney the loser from MA, outsourcing king, off shore account maven, company busting brat who bullied gays and dressed up like a state trooper just to harass people. Is this the person we think will care about Main St, seniors and college kids? - Do we really want this type of person leading our nation backed by a congress who has been against Main St and that 47% of Americans that Romney was caught saying we are good for nothing lazy moochers? What kind of a person says this? Not a good one, not a responsible one, not a leader that represents all the people and not just the top- He has shown his hand over and over along with a congress that has vowed to defeat Obama at any cost to the 99%. And do we want president who is against cancer screening for women, against birth control and who things rape victims should be forced to give birth even if the mother’s life is at stake? Do we want a president supports a congress that refuses to sign the violence against women Act? These are the people who say they cherish the unborn but are willing to allow 35+ million to live in grinding poverty in our nation, vast populations of working poor and tens of thousands of college grads who can’t find work. It’s OK with Romney if our health care system is the emergency room only and who will support cutting services across that nation as the ultra -rich get richer. VARDETTE
Jacek
Oct. 29, 2012, 11:23 a.m.
What can you do? The feds put Grad Plus debt at 8.25-8.5%, and Stafford at 6.8%, these loans cannot be serviced by private lenders, and the only consolidation options are direct through the federal government. 8.5% is absurd, and without going into semantics, I’ve accrued 2x the interest on my fed loans as opposed to my private ones.
Funny how you’d think the government wanted to you to have less debt burden.
Greg Todd
Nov. 10, 2012, 1:08 a.m.
Interesting, important topic. I plan to go