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The Student Poverty Song going viral

Music video by Dalhousie University students gets web traction

Student debt The Student Poverty Song going viral photo

Student debt in Nova Scotia is highest in Canada

A music video by the Dal Student Union gets 10,000 YouTube hits in 6 days.

Students are protesting the high tuition and their high student debt in Nova Scotia.

Back in the 1960s, we protested at Dal but it was over nuclear war, racial discrimination and Vietnam. Times have changed.

The video says they cannot afford the debt since the jobs aren’t out there that pay them when they graduate.

Are they spoiled iPhone users or truly impoverished students? Whatever the answer, the video is funny and entertaining.

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