ABSTRACT
This chapter advocates monetary reform in order to solve the student debt crisis. It describes the two kinds of monetary reform being worked on today and their implications for funding public education. The chapter explains why the author advocate macro-level reform, and lays out a strategy for its pursuit, one that works on educational and political fronts at national, international, local, and regional levels. Building a movement for systemic change requires building bridges to every constituency that shares some common goals, values, or interests with monetary reform. While macro monetary reform in the public interest is necessary, the earliest and, until recently, most numerous of today's monetary reformers focused their efforts at meso-level reforms. A combination of educational, networking and coalition building, and political work and activism is needed to achieve monetary reform in the United States through passing the NEED Act or its successor legislation.
