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title: "susie-c:\n\nAmerican for-profit colleges have operated with near impunity for decades, sucking up federal student aid money and defrauding thousands in search of better lives, in exchange for big capital gains. Now students are fighting back. From my latest illustrated feature at Fusion."
date: 2015-09-29 05:23:03 +00
tags: tumblr
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![mirrored image from https://66.media.tumblr.com/5283db61d987d0e3f902e746817250f1/tumblr_nvfak0Kzy31qzgb2io1_1280.png without alt text, sorry](./130115574843.png)

[susie-c](http://susie-c.tumblr.com/post/130115154305/american-for-profit-colleges-have-operated-with):

> American for-profit colleges have operated with near impunity for decades, sucking up federal student aid money and defrauding thousands in search of better lives, in exchange for big capital gains. Now students are fighting back. From [my latest illustrated feature at Fusion](http://fusion.net/story/204007/students-ruined-by-for-profit-colleges-fight-back/).

September 28th, 2015 10:23pm