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All Education Matters: Suicides and Student Loan Debt

All Education Matters: Suicides and Student Loan Debt

Suicides and Student Loan Debt

In July of 2008, Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a piece entitled, "Suicide Spreads as One Solution to the Debt Crisis." The article touched upon the housing crash, and Ehrenreich highlighted several cases in which people took their lives when they knew they were losing their homes.

Ehrenreich discusses shoot-outs in the past, but this often entailed groups of men barricading themselves in their homes and fighting it out with the cops. In recent history, however, people were turning the barrel of the gun