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Radio Higher Ed Podcast: A Conversation about the intersection of economics, higher education, and the workforce

 Radio Higher Ed Podcast 8

Join Radio Higher Ed co-hosts Kathryn Dodge, Alison Griffin and Elise Scanlon for a conversation with Dr. Anthony Carnevale, Director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Dr. Carnevale discusses student loan debt, the relationship between the workforce and higher education, quality in higher education, and the recent report from Senator Harkin on the for-profit sector.

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Student Debt’s Red Herring

FoxBusiness.com

By Elizabeth MacDonald

Who is to blame for soaring U.S. student loan debt that now surpasses credit card and auto-loan debt, at an estimated $1 trillion, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?

The Occupy Wall Street folks blamed the banks, but are the real culprits colleges, which have gouged American families with virtually unchecked hikes in tuition?

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