Category: News & Commentary
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Boston Globe: Who should pay for higher education at UMass and beyond?
Check out PHENOM in the Boston Globe: Who should pay for higher education at UMass and beyond? (by Evan Horowitz). “As tuition has grown, so has student debt. Total student […]
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PHENOM Discusses Increasing Student Fees in the T&G and Globe
Not one, but two stories this week for PHENOM! The Telegram & Gazette: UMass, other public colleges, increase fees for next year. The higher fees were disappointing news for Natalie […]
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MassLive Reports on PHENOM’s new Student Debt Crisis Publication
Diane Lederman from the Springfield Republican covered the release of PHENOM’s new Student Debt Crisis Publication: Causes and Consequences of Mounting Student Debt in Massachusetts.
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MassLive: Reports on the Anticipated Release of “Causes and Consequences”
MassLive’s Diane Lederman recently covered a rally against student debt, and mentioned the anticipated release of Causes and Consequences of Mounting Student Debt in Massachusetts on April 25th. Here’s an […]
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PHENOM to Release Startling New Research on the Causes and Consequences Student Debt Crisis in Massachusetts
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 21, 2015 Contact: Natalie Higgins, nhiggins@phenomonline.org, 978-227-8473 PHENOM to Release Startling New Research on the Causes and Consequences Student Debt Crisis in Massachusetts […]
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Warren and Cummings Tackling the Student Debt Crisis
By: Natalie Higgins, PHENOM’s Executive Director April 3rd, 2015 Yesterday, I attended a forum, “Tackling the Student Debt Crisis,” at UMass Boston hosted by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Elijah […]
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Income Inequality and Taxes in Massachusetts
A new study by Standard and Poor’s “suggests a more progressive income tax that requires wealthier individuals to pay higher tax rates could help states deal with revenue problems.” As […]
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PHENOM Hiring an Executive Director
PHENOM is hiring an Executive Director who will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for PHENOM’s staff, programs, expansion, and execution of its mission. Please see the full job posting […]
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Performance Funding (guess what? it doesn’t work)
It’s all the buzz. Just say the words and the Gates Foundation will give you money. Say them twice and you’ll have some legislators swooning over you. Look at the […]
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All You Need to Know about Student Loans
This New York Times article by Joseph Stiglitz is a particularly clear explanation of the student debt crisis, along with suggestions of how to fix it. Stiglitz, former chief economist […]