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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

All Education Matters: The Loop 21 - You're Hired: 3 Tips for Getting the Salary & Benefits You Deserve

All Education Matters: The Loop 21 - You're Hired: 3 Tips for Getting the Salary & Benefits You Deserve:

The Loop 21 - You're Hired: 3 Tips for Getting the Salary & Benefits You Deserve

My expertise is about the student lending crisis, and how it intersects with other significant issues (I had the opportunity this past weekend to talk about all of these things at the recent Young Democratic Socialist's conference in Brooklyn, NY - I was a guest speaker, and it went really well. It's always exhilarating to speak to an audience of college students. Not only were they receptive, but they know far more about the dangers of student loan debt than those of us who are now struggling).

I have also write extensively about Occupy and poverty, income inequality and unemployment. When it comes to unemployment, there are - according to Robert Reich - 25 million people who are unemployed. If individuals aren't unemployed, they find themselves underemployed. It doesn't take stats coming from think tanks and economists