The Whole Student Loan Thing Drives Me Completely Nuts. If It Wasn't Possible For 18-year-olds To Sign Themselves Up For Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars In Debt In Order To Pay Their College Bills, The State Governments Wouldn't Have Found It So Politically Easy To Cut Taxpayer Support For Public Colleges And Universities.

-Gail Collins

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The Whole Student Loan Thing Drives Me

Gail Collins

The Whole Student Loan Thing Drives Me Completely Nuts. If It Wasn't Possible For 18-year-olds To Sign Themselves Up For Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars In Debt In Order To Pay Their College Bills, The State Governments Wouldn't Have Found It So Politically Easy To Cut Taxpayer Support For Public Colleges And Universities.

Topic

Cutting

College

Government

When The Women's Movement Began, It Was A Middle-class Phenomenon. Certainly, Black Women Had Other Stuff To Think About In The '60s Besides A Women's Movement. Working-class Women Were Slow To Get Into It.

Thinking

Class

Black