| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, 52 min) |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Gary Keith Griffin ; editor, Linda Hattendorf and Anders Bremsen ; music, Polar Levine. |
| Performer |
Commentary, John McLaughlin. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 2006. |
| Summary |
This hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans - college and high school students in particular - are being strangled by debt. Zeroing in on how the mall has replaced the factory as America's dominant economic engine, Emmy Award-winning former ABC News and CNN producer Danny Schechter shows how college students are being forced to pay higher interest on loans while graduating, on average, with more than {dollar}20,000 in consumer debt. The film empowers as it enrages, delivering an accessible and fascinating introduction to what former Reagan advisor Kevin Phillips has called "the debt-and-credit industrial complex." |
| Audience |
Grade 9+ |
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Higher education. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Consumer credit -- United States.
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Consumption (Economics)
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Debt -- United States.
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Debts, Public -- United States.
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| Genre |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Green, Steve.
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Hattendorf, Linda.
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O'Connor, Rory.
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Schechter, Danny.
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Kanopy (Firm)
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| In: |
Media Education Foundation Collection njcore00000000080 |
| Music No. |
1041554 Kanopy |
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