{"id":35909,"date":"2013-05-30T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T16:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=35909"},"modified":"2013-05-30T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T16:30:02","slug":"news-journal-large-group-protests-sallie-mae-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/05\/30\/news-journal-large-group-protests-sallie-mae-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"News Journal: Large group protests Sallie Mae meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of about a 100 college students and activists gathered to protest at the annual shareholders meeting of Christiana-based Sallie Mae this morning.<\/p>\n<p>As of 10:30 a.m., the group gathered outside the front gates of the company headquarters and were sitting behind a line of Delaware state troopers.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators said they believe the nation&#8217;s largest provider of student loans has saddled recent college students with too much debt, and they also take issue with the company lobbying efforts in state and federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Sallie Mae announced Wednesday the company will be splitting into two publicly traded companies within the next year: one for education loan management and the other for consumer banking. A new CEO, John F. \u201cJack\u201d Remondi &#8211; the company\u2019s COO, also was named Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/article\/20130530\/BUSINESS05\/305300073\/Large-group-protests-Sallie-Mae-meeting\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of about a 100 college students and activists gathered to protest at the annual shareholders meeting of Christiana-based Sallie Mae this morning. As of 10:30 a.m., the group gathered outside the front gates of the company headquarters and were sitting behind a line of Delaware state troopers. Demonstrators said they believe the nation&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}