I've been monitoring the movement, especially since the student loan bubble was supposed to burst immediately following the banking, mortgage and tech bubbles collapsed spectacularly ... because I've got some skin in the game. Or, more specifically, I happen to own .00000021 of the 1.2 trillion debt piled up out there.
Disclaimer ... I wouldn't trade one minute of the nearly dozen years I spent collecting my assorted degrees, and, in my opinion, I can't put a price on what I learned and experienced and lived back then (even if the government reminds me every so often that said price is a quarter of a million dollars).
So, selfishly, here's hoping the kiddies get some traction on their demands OR that 1 out of 4 of the million marching take a collection and send me a dollar each to retire my debt. Either resolution works for me!
THE STUDENT LOAN DEBT CLOCK:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/every-second-americans-get-buried-under-another-3055-in-student-loan-debt-2015-06-10
INFORMATION ABOUT TODAY'S PROTEST:
http://thinkprogress.org/education/2015/11/12/3721211/million-student-march/
WAS YOUR LOCAL COLLEGE INVOLVED:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/12/million-student-march-fights-for-debt-free-college/
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