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Occupy Wall Street should aim its fire at colleges, not banks

New York Daily News - Opinion Piece

December 7, 2011

A group of Occupy protesters has launched a campaign encouraging students to repudiate their student debt. "There is no justice in a system that openly invites profiteering on the part of lenders," they say. However, writes Kevin Carey, the real profiteers in the higher education system aren't the lenders - they're the colleges and universities.

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