Ann Larson

Occupy Wall Street demonstrators wear signs around their neck representing their student debt during a protest against the rising national student debt in New York on April 25, 2012.

‘If you owe the bank $1 trillion, you own the bank,’ say student debtors who are fighting back

February 25, 2015Education

The number of college graduates with debt is rising quickly, and some students have had enough. A group known as the Corinthian 15 say they’re going on a “debt strike,” hoping to force action to cancel the debts they owe to a for-profit education company — and spur broader change.