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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.
 
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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..."
 
Article: "Codetermination in Germany" by Wikipedia.
Lawsuit: "Dodge v. Ford Motor Company", Mich. 1919.

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Book: The Benghazi Hoax by David Brock, Ari Rabin-Havt, Media Matters for America.
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Article: "Global Ground Zero in Asia" by Nouriel Roubini.

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Article: "Assess the U.S. Climate" by U.S. Global Change Research Program.
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Article: "Fee and dividend" by Wikipedia.
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