The for-profit predatory colleges, in their mad dash to suck up as much as they can in Title IV funds, Pell grants, and other government subsidies, thus enriching their investors at the expense of students, prey on and then wolf down the most disadvantaged students they can find. The for-profit predatory colleges sign up as many “borrowers” as they can – even pounding on homeless shelters to recruit bodies, looking for drug addicts they can enroll from recovery programs and all of this with debilitating consequences for borrowers who miss payments and borrowers’ families. They set up at welfare offices, hang out at laundromats in low-income neighborhoods, recruit at public housing units, and their “recruiters” patrol the streets of distressed neighborhoods in automobiles or on foot looking for vulnerable working class bodies they can register for government cash.

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by Danny Weil, Truthout.

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