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Generation Debt, and other writing by Anya Kamenetz
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About The Author
My new book, DIY U:Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education (buy it here), will be published by Chelsea Green in April 2010. I'm a staff writer for Fast Company Magazine and the author of the book Generation Debt. I've written Generation Debt columns for the Village Voice and as a featured Yahoo! Finance expert. I've also written for publications ranging from the New York Times to ReadyMade magazine and Mental Floss.
I live in Brooklyn with a phenomenal husband and an amazing cat.
I travel and speak fairly often. Upcoming dates are:
3/12-3/16 South By Southwest Interactive festival
4/11 Vox Pop bookstore NYC
4/21 Bluestockings Radical Books, NYC
5/4 Octavia Books, New Orleans
5/17-5/18 Carter Center, Atlanta; TEDx Atlanta conference
6/7-6/10 Sustainable Brands conference, Monterrey, CA
Contact Keppler Speakers if you want me to come to your town!
Email me at a kamenetz at fastcompany dot com.
I live in Brooklyn with a phenomenal husband and an amazing cat.
I travel and speak fairly often. Upcoming dates are:
3/12-3/16 South By Southwest Interactive festival
4/11 Vox Pop bookstore NYC
4/21 Bluestockings Radical Books, NYC
5/4 Octavia Books, New Orleans
5/17-5/18 Carter Center, Atlanta; TEDx Atlanta conference
6/7-6/10 Sustainable Brands conference, Monterrey, CA
Contact Keppler Speakers if you want me to come to your town!
Email me at a kamenetz at fastcompany dot com.
Good Links
- American Prospect Blog
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- BlogHer Personal Finance
- Brazen Careerist
- Campus Progress
- Credit Slips (Elizabeth Warren, etc)
- Debt Bloggers
- Employee Evolution
- Entitlements Research
- Freelancers Union
- Gen Y Financial Freedom
- Generation Debt Dot Org
- Higher Ed Watch
- Inside Higher Ed
- Journey to Financial Freedom
- Student Loan Justice
- US PIRGs Higher Ed
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- Great Review/Commentary of Gendebt in the Guardian UK
- 40,000-strong LA School Walkout Protesting Immigra...
- Sallie Mae: "March Toward Monopoly"
- Good News from NY State
- The Illegal Dilemma
- Wow! Thanks for your Comments!
- Author Interview on Slushpile.net
- Le McJob
- Want to Be on TV?
- Hollywood Squares
- Must Read Column on Sallie Mae
- Best Job Market in 5 Years for College Grads
- State Support for Higher Ed at 25-Year Low
- Win a Trip to East Africa
- Students Confront Higher Ed Policy Advisors
- Worse off than our parents, sez Harvard prof
- On the Air
- Personal Finance Pitfalls
- Gen Debt France
- Some Cuts to Ed Budget Restored
- Congress Votes to Raise the Debt
- "Maxed Out" Credit Card Doc
- "So How Scared Should We Be?"
- Tart Commentary from Anchorage, Alaska
- K-16
- New Ad Campaign on Social Value of College
- Many Jobs Lack Benefits to Cut...
- LA Times Review
- Consolidate Student Loans by 6/30!
- The Kalamazoo Promise
- Send 'Em Back to Work
- To the Lobbyists
- 2 Letters from This Morning's Inbox
- SL Consolidation= Gross Monopoly
- Loan Forgiveness Programs
- Some Recent Coverage
- Law Students Sue UC for Raising Tuition...
- Great Article about Jobs, Skills, and Global Markets
- Live Chat Monday March 6!
- 2 new interviewshttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link...
- Thoughtful Review in SF Chronicle
- DC Public Affairs Radio
- Moneypants Interview
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2 comments:
One comment on your chat about school-as-lender. Yes, schools do receive some profit from the sale of their loans which are done as school-as-lender, but those profits are required by federal regulation to be used for undergraduate scholarships. With the shrinking of state aid budgets and anemic federal resources, why shouldn't schools look to school-as-lender as another avenue to provide assistance to their students?
that's fine, but why should banks be allowed to provide such incentives (which they pay for out of profits that are ultimately guaranteed by the federal government) when the direct loan program is not allowed to?
I'm not saying schools are doing anything wrong by negotiating with the system that exists. I'm saying the system needs to change.
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