The Daily Shaarli
December 14, 2020
- Average university debt: $25K (over twice the government-subsidized loan amount)
- Median university debt: $20K
Undergraduate tuition fees are too high and the government support is too low.
Over 1/3 graduates (36%) owe above $30K after undergraduate education. The median is $20K. That's quite a skew when you remember that the data is bounded at 0 on the left.
In this interactive seminar organized jointly by the Henry George School and the International Union for Land Value Taxation, Michael Hudson and Pepe Escobar will unpack one of the most destructive features of our economic system and the many different ways it drives wealth inequality.
The winter wave of COVID-19 cases continues to rage in Europe, North America and even Latin America and Asia. So, as the vaccines get rolled out across the world to varying degrees of rapidity and volume, let’s measure the damage done in deaths from COVID-19 as we approach the end of 2020.