Student Loan, Ballooning Debt
My original loan balance for my Bachelors of Science program in Computer Information Systems was approximately $42,000.00. As a result of outsourcing I was laid off as a Software Development Project...
View ArticleDavid and Goliath
My story has many subtitles: “State seizes 100% of liquid assets over a paperwork snafoo,” “Ex-husband’s debt causes state to seize $25,000 from mother of disabled son.” “Medical bills from child’s...
View ArticleVets and Collection Agencies
I gave this idea to Senator Sherrod Browns staff and I was told the idea has merit, and since then follow-up inquiries are met with silence. I proposed that it’s immoral and unethical to refer a...
View ArticleFrom a Mother
My story is about my daughter. She is a young adult who graduated with a Master’s Degree in Education. She was unable to find a teaching job and has been working at temporary positions for several...
View ArticleDebt for an M.S.
I’m 62 and borrowed $12,700 at age 40 to go to a state school and get a B.S. I worked while in school, got job at UMass after graduation, started paying off loans. While working got an M.S. and took in...
View ArticleSame Old Story
After graduating High school, I was young and brash, and definitely not interested in further schooling. I was also an excellent musician and knew with absolute certainty that I would eventually make...
View ArticleI Take Your Stuff…
On the weekend of the Occupy Wall Street anniversary I attended a meeting of the Strike Debt assembly in New York. The meeting was a book release for The Debt Resistors’ Operations Manual, but also a...
View ArticleDrowning in Debt
I am 40 years old and earned a Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling in August 2011. I earned my BA in Psychology in 2004. My BA offered almost no opportunities for employment, especially a...
View ArticleCrushed by Debt
Born into a middle class family who owned a mom & pop grocery store operating on a cash basis, you may not realize it but you’re taught that cash is king. Qualifications for loans or credit cards...
View ArticleAnother Government-Backed Swindle
I originally borrowed $20,000 from a 4 year college . I worked night shift in an urban hospital as a phlebotomist. The hospital was reimbursing the cost of some of my classes. One semester I had a 4.0...
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