• Inucune@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Go to school, then be ‘too smart’ for the job market, but not smart enough to not be replaced by a H1B visa that the employer can use to force sub-mimimum wage conditions on someone else.

    Just another way to get people into the poverty spiral, extra credit if they move laterally into the prison slave labor spiral.

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    22 hours ago

    Out of the 19.6 million student loan borrowers, TransUnion found that roughly 20% are at risk of defaulting. The figure — which TransUnion estimates could be much higher — outpaces the credit bureau’s previously recorded all-time high of 15.4% in 2012.