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Director of photography, Gary Keith Griffin ; editor, Linda Hattendorf and Anders Bremsen ; music, Polar Levine
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 $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."
Commentary, John McLaughlin
Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 2006
Grade 9+
Higher education
Mode of access: World Wide Web