Student Loan Debt

What would you do with $27,000?

Today, student loan debt in the U.S. is estimated to hit the $1 TRILLION mark – far surpassing auto-loan and credit card debt.  It’s a huge drag on our economy that not only places a heavy burden on the backs of recent graduates, but also poses a risk to our future economic prosperity. In Wisconsin, […]

The Burden of Student Debt

One Wisconsin Now is also creating a website that will highlight national efforts at helping students with excessive debt. At the height of the Occupy protests last fall, young people held signs announcing how much they owed in student loans. While the pundits were asking each other what, exactly, the protesters wanted, a big part of […] [Isthmus]

One Wis. Now Supporters Back to Skies Against Walker at Badger Game

With University of Wisconsin Badgers’ football returning to Camp Randall Saturday after a several week road trip, One Wisconsin Now supporters will also be returning to the skies above with a message about the failure of Gov. Scott Walker and its impact on students. This week’s banner that will fly overhead for the two hours preceding […]

Kentucky is Open for Business: WI to lose 165 manufacturing jobs

Perhaps hearing how serious the GOP isn’t about creating jobs during the so-called special jobs session, Dana Holding Corp., an auto parts manufacturer, is closing its doors and moving to Kentucky. The closure will take place at the end of next year or in early 2013, a company official said. It will result in the […]

Corporate lackeys rush to defend trillion-dollar student loan debt

Over the weekend, our “$1,000,000,000,000 IN STUDENT LOAN DEBT – BIG BANKS STOLE OUR FUTURE” banner at the Occupy Milwaukee event was featured in a photo in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Not too long after, corporate mouthpiece Charlie Sykes sent marching orders to right-wing bloggers across the state, all to defend the big banking industry […]

Occupy Wall Street movement reaches Milwaukee

Occupy Milwaukee protesters march Saturday along N. Water St. past JPMorgan Chase Bank to the M&I Bank building. The student-loan debt held by banks was just one of many issues the marchers displayed on signs. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]

Our Posts #F*ckYouWashington

You may have heard about the amazing outpouring of frustration and outrage realized this weekend over the ceaseless power of corporate special interests which own the Republicans and can occasionally rent a few Democrats in Congress. This, combined with a superficial and senationalistic horserace mentality by the national media have pushed the patience of the […]