Did you know that many university endowments and pension funds are invested your tuition money in private student loan companies? Do you think this is fair? Please REBLOG this image to raise awareness, and Click Here to read more.

Young Americans have invested in their education over housing and car purchases, which according to the Atlantic, could work as a “reverse-stimulus” in the long-term by adding more skilled workers to our labor force. Do you agree with this article? LIKE if you think college is a good investment, REBLOG if you’re troubled by the lack in home and auto purchasing.

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State representatives from Ohio are attempting to discourage colleges from providing out-of-state students with voter ID documents—and they’re hiding it in a budget bill. Check out the details in our full translation  and tell us your opinion. LIKE if you agree suppression has to stop, REBLOG if you think the bill is fair.

Almost 1/2 of college grads are working jobs that don’t require a bachelor’s degree and 38% have jobs that don’t require a high school diploma. Please LIKE this post to highlight the problem, and let us know what OurTime.org should push for to solve this problem?

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OurTime.org is hiring a New Media intern for Summer 2013!

Breaking: College Republicans and College Democrats at several Ivy League Universities released a joint statement endorsing marriage equality—an issue that the Millennial generation overwhelmingly supports. What’s your opinion? LIKE if this bipartisan effort demonstrates a change that our generation will bring to politics & COMMENT if it won’t have an effect on how Republicans and Democrats get along.

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American Career Institute is the latest for-profit college to close several campuses, leaving its students with debt and no diploma to show for it. Do you think for-profit colleges are a scam? LIKE if you agree and REBLOG if you disagree.

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Udacity, a for-profit startup, will soon provide low cost online college courses in California that students can take for credit at some schools. However, these classes are taught by Udacity employees, not professors. Do you agree with this meme? LIKE if you would take these courses online & REBLOG if you think classes should be taught only by accredited professors.

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Members of the Occupy Wall Street Intern Labor Rights and Arts and Labor divisions plan to protest at the fashion show venues during New York Fashion Week this week in hopes to drive unpaid labor out of the arts. What’s your opinion of unpaid internships? LIKE if they are necessary to gain experience or COMMENT if they exploit young Americans for free labor.

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced today that it will conduct a study to determine if student banking services promoted by colleges are really a good deal. We want to know your opinion. REBLOG if we need more safeguards to protect our students from banking plans that go against their best interest & REPLY  to share whether the relationships between colleges and financial institutions is a good or bad idea.

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Tulane University, Emory University, and George Washington University are all guilty of sending in false information in hopes of improving their U.S. News & World Report rankings. Do colleges place too much emphasis on this list, or do you think these rankings are important for making decisions about college? What’s your opinion? LIKE if you disagree with the rankings & REBLOG if you think they are useful.

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You may have heard of the federal student loan income-based repayment plan, where borrowers who have high debt and low income make lower payments each month and can possibly have their debt forgiven after 10 to 25 years. However, you may not know that once the debt is forgiven, they are expected to pay federal taxes on their debt. For example, if someone has $41,000 forgiven, they could still owe $10,000 in taxes that must be paid at once. What’s your opinion? Should borrowers have to pay taxes on their forgiven debt? LIKE if they should be relieved of this tax burden and REBLOG if they should pay what they owe.

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