trumpism Independent auditor: Trump has made it impossible for students defrauded by predatory diploma mills to get their loans cancelled Cory Doctorow
climate Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren introduce a bill to provide $146B in aid to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Cory Doctorow
law States suspend your driver's license over inability to pay court fines, costing you your job and any ability to repay Cory Doctorow
education Once again, Cards Against Humanity is offering full-ride scholarships for women in STEM Cory Doctorow
Business Chinese cops treat kidnapping as a routine form of largely acceptable debt-collection Cory Doctorow
uk Student loans are really "a list of people liable to additional taxation after graduation" Cory Doctorow
money In the UK, 77% of 2017 university grads will never fully repay their student loan debt Andrea James
class war Trucking company fires worker who spoke to reporter about working conditions, takes truck and $60,000 from him Cory Doctorow
china Bank of International Settlements warns of global economic crash, "with a vengeance" Cory Doctorow
Civlib China's "citizen scores" used to blacklist 6.7m people from using high-speed rail or flying Cory Doctorow
piketty Reminder: if you have one penny, your net worth is equal to the combined wealth of the world's poorest 40% Cory Doctorow
corruption Wells Fargo just hit with another massive fraud scandal, but thankfully Donald Trump owes them a lot of money Cory Doctorow
class war Giving companies more money (loans, tax-breaks) only increases investor payouts, not expansion Cory Doctorow
