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Thom's blog
Are Banksters responsible for autism?
America’s student loan debt crisis is deforming an entire generation. Right now, America’s outstanding student loan debt stands at over $1.18 trillion. More than 40 million Americans hold student loan debt; that’s more people than the populations of Canada, Australia, Poland and 200 other countries. And of those 40 million borrowers, around 7 million have defaulted on their debt.
The average debt for a 25-year-old American student has risen a staggering 91 percent over the past decade, and most of that is student loan debt. Student loan debt exceeds both credit card and auto loan debt in America, and the average debt per person is over $23,000. And, according to a study by Hamilton Place Strategies, by 2023, the average amount of debt that college students graduate with will equal what the median college graduate will earn every year.
That same study found that "average student debt at graduation has skyrocketed by 200 percent since 1993..." These mountains of student loan debt that are burdening millions of Americans are killing our economy, society, and even our health.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Stop drinking Koch (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Watch the video 'Last Hours' narrated by Thom Hartmann about the "time bomb" that is ticking underground, underwater and under ice… frozen methane that is now escaping and could trigger runaway climate change. www.lasthours.org
Have a question or comment for Thom? Grab your phone, hit record and send your video to YourTakeMyTake@gmail.com and we may air it on "The Big Picture."
Need to Know: Stop drinking Koch- America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio 
Screwed: The Unstoppable Ralph Nader- Ralph Nader, Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State
Your Take / My Take Live: Call Thom LIVE at (202) 904-2134 TONIGHT 7-8pm ET (check local listings)
Daily Take: Are Banksters responsible for autism?
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: The Voter ID nightmare...
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..."
Hour Two: Occupy found guilty- Frank Coughlin, Justice for Cecily Support Group
Hour Three: Kids vs. global warming- Alec Loorz, iMatter Youth
PLUS, The Impossible Will Take a Little While- Paul Loeb, The Impossible Will Take a Little While
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Where are the non-Christian prayergivers?- Susan Galloway, Town of Greece vs. Gallowa.
Hour Two: Stop drinking Koch- America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio
Hour Three: The nuclear explosion you never heard of- Paul DeRienzo, Independent Journalist
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"...
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
It's Friday and that means it's Brunch With Bernie...America's Senator...Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be here talking about all the important issues of the week and he'll be taking YOUR calls too...get your questions ready...
Plus, it's Anything Goes Friday...your chance to sound off about any topic...what's on your mind?
And, the best of the rest of the news...all the news and information you won't be hearing from the corporate owned news media...together with your calls...right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"
And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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On the Road Again
Tomorrow
May 10 - Northampton, MA 7pm: Crash of 2016 booksigning, The Parlor Room. Free, but sign up at whmp.com
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Thom's Poll
Will the fight against monopolistic corporations unite the country?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 5/7/14: New Benghazi Committee Could Cost "Tens Of Millions"
Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" discusses how the new Benghazi committee could cost Americans tens of millions, whether there should be term limits on Supreme Court justices and a new study showing how Obamacare is working great. Thom talks with PandoDaily's David Sirota on how Wall Street is cashing in on public pensions and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses how his trip to the DMV showed him the real horrors of the GOP's war on voting.
The Impossible Will Take a Little While
Kids vs. Global Warming
Occupy Found Guilty...
The Thom Hartmann Program - May 7, 2014
Caller: Government Bureaucracy is Evil!
The Voter ID Nightmare
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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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