Draut

"This debt-for-diploma system is strangling our young people right when they're starting out in life," says Tamara Draut, author of Strapped: Why America's 20 - and 30 - Somethings Can't Get Ahead.

Young people struggle to deal with kiss of debt 2006

"'Quit whining' — I've heard that a lot," says Draut, who is director of the economic opportunity program at Demos, a public-policy research group.

Young people struggle to deal with kiss of debt 2006

The key problem, Draut says, is that due to stagnant wages and the rising cost of education, younger people are going into debt — especially those coming from lower-income families.

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…Draut lays it out like a pro without indulging the whininess that so often creeps into my voice when I try to convey my generation's situation to my mother.

Archive 2006-01-01 Diane Silver 2006

…Draut lays it out like a pro without indulging the whininess that so often creeps into my voice when I try to convey my generation's situation to my mother.

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Tamara Draut reveals that more subsidized financial aid now goes to suburban students who can afford expensive SAT courses.

The Rich and Everyone Else Hacker, Andrew 2006

"In today's United States," Tamara Draut writes in Inequality Matters, "a four-year degree has become the all-but-official ticket to middle-class security."

The Rich and Everyone Else Hacker, Andrew 2006

"Here's the bad news: there's no limit on how much interest they can charge you, so the sky is still the limit," Draut says.

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"Here's the bad news: there's no limit on how much interest they can charge you, so the sky is still the limit," Draut says.

Dallas / Fort Worth news, weather, sports, traffic and video from cbs11tv.com 2010

"Here's the bad news: there's no limit on how much interest they can charge you, so the sky is still the limit," Draut says.

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