Indentured students, how government-guaranteed loans left generations drowning in college debt, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
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Indentured students, how government-guaranteed loans left generations drowning in college debt, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Indentured students
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bibliography
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1235871803
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Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
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how government-guaranteed loans left generations drowning in college debt
Summary
"It is widely understood that student loan assistance has inflated college tuition, student debt, and lender profits. Less often recognized is that these outcomes were intended. Elizabeth Tandy Shermer uncovers the history of federal student loans, showing that they were designed to appease constituencies opposed to affordable higher education"--, Provided by publisher
Table of contents
Introduction: Drowning in debt -- Honorably financing college -- Will work for school -- A bill of rights for only some GIs -- The fizzled response to Sputnik -- Federally guaranteed students -- Reauthorizing the loan industry -- Bankers lose their sweetheart deal -- Epilogue: A brave new world of indentured students
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