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For-profit colleges are scamming American students
According to an investigation by Democratic Congressman Elijah Cumming – the ranking member on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform – for-profit colleges are paying executives massive salaries – not based on student achievement – but instead based solely on profitability. Looking at 13 different for-profit schools – the investigation found, “the single most significant measure for determining executive compensation at these schools is corporate profitability…rather than student achievement.”
For-profit colleges rely heavily on government funding, with many schools receiving as much as 90% of their revenue from federal student loan assistance programs. Yet, they’re not producing good results. A quarter of all students who attend for-profit schools default after three years, while the default rate at public institutions is a mere 10%. Yet the for-profit school executives still get fat paychecks – like Strayer CEO Robert Silberman who made $41 million in 2009 alone.
Educating the future American workforce used to be a part of the commons, because the economic security of the nation depends on well-educated workers. But now, the money-changers are in control – leaving students in debt, unprepared, and jobless.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Dark night rises...America's growing police state (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: SWAT vs. Anaheim protestors- Amber Lyon, independent investigative journalist & filmmaker 
Dark night rises...America's growing police state- John Knefel, independent journalist & co-host of Radio Dispatch / The Faster Times
Screwed: Romney ignores workers' pleas to "save our jobs"- Cheryl Randecker, one of the workers at Sensata Tech whose job will be getting outsourced.
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Koch-funded study..."global warming real!"- Bill McKibben, 350.org / Environmentalist / Activist / Author of numerous books including "Eaarth"
"Everything You Know is Wrong": Can science and religion make peace?- Dr. Robert Piccioni, Physicist / Author of 3 books, including "Can Life be Merely an Accident?"
Daily Take: Scalia and the right to bear..."hand held rocket launchers?"
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Mitt Romney and "the little people"...
Mitt ignores workers' pleas to "save our jobs"- Cheryl Randecker, one of the workers at Sensata Tech whose job will be getting outsourced.
Hour Two: Do you have a constititutional right to an insanity defense?- John Manuelian, Libertarian attorney
Hour Three: Justice Scalia and the "right to bear hand held rocket launchers..."
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...TAG, YOU'RE IT!!!!!!!!! (OCCUPY SOMETHING!!!!!)
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Friday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too... Follow Bernie:    campaign site.
Hour Two: GOP PA Voter ID (Plus, 100 Days "Weekend of Action" / "It Takes One" launch)- Blythe Danner, Actress / Activist
Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1, section 8. " The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;"
Site: Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential nominee.
Hour Three: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Would taxing the internet help or hurt the economy...and the internet? Is it taxation without representation? I'll challenge the folks at the Competitive Enterprise Institute...
Plus, we'll have the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"...TAG, YOU'RE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (GET OUT THERE, GET ACTIVE AND OCCUPY SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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Thom's Poll
Should for-profit schools be eliminated?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Conversations w/Great Minds - NSA Whistleblowers - Are They Spying on the Entire Country? P1
Big Picture Rumble - Solutions to wealth inequality?
Conversations w/Great Minds - NSA Whistleblowers - Are They Spying on the Entire Country? P2
The Rumble - Do we REALLY have a right to 25 firearms & AK-47s? Part 1
The Rumble - Do we REALLY have a right to 25 firearms & AK-47s? Part 2
Why is it only Republicans who commit voter fraud?
David LaMotte sings "Hope" off his album "Hard Earned Smile"
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 7/27/12: NSA Whistleblowers
Thom talks with NSA Whistleblowers Thomas Drake and Kirk Wiebe in tonight's "Conversations with Great Minds." Tonight's "Big Picture Rumble" panel discusses the latest from spoiled rich kid Romney's trip abroad, Obama's call to strengthen our country's gun control laws and why cities are banning Chick-Fil-A restaurants. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses how voter fraud rarely happens, but when it does it's Republicans who are usually guilty.
Thom Hartmann on the News - July 27, 2012
Brunch with Bernie - July 27, 2012
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 Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village (NESCV) in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow. Can you help? Now on Facebook. |
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