John Oliver Breaks Down America’s Problem with Student Debt and For-Profit Schools

If you’re a college freshman this fall, John Oliver has a useful motivational message just for you at the end of the above Last Week Tonight segment on student debt and the many sleazy for-profit colleges in the US. If you’re no longer a college freshman, many of the facts in the segment – for-profit schools using “pain points,” taking advantage of wounded veterans, and using the trade group APSCU to lobby for the most student loans possible – might not be as important to you as your own mountain of student debt you’ll be paying off for the rest of your life.

John Oliver Breaks Down America’s Problem with Student […]