Indentured students : how government-guaranteed loans left generations drowning in college debt / Elizabeth Tandy Shermer.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021Copyright date: �2021Description: 1 online resource (viii, 382 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780674269798
- 0674269799
- 9780674269804
- 0674269802
- Federal aid to higher education -- United States -- History
- Student loans -- United States -- History
- College costs -- United States -- History
- Debt -- United States -- History
- Educational equalization -- United States -- History
- Aide de l'�Etat �a l'enseignement sup�erieur -- �Etats-Unis -- Histoire
- Pr�ets d'�etudes -- �Etats-Unis -- Histoire
- Dettes -- �Etats-Unis -- Histoire
- D�emocratisation de l'enseignement -- �Etats-Unis -- Histoire
- EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- Federal Legislation
- EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / Federal Legislation
- College costs
- Debt
- Educational equalization
- Federal aid to higher education
- Student loans
- United States
- 379.1/2140973 23
- LB2342.4.U6
- LB2342.4.U6 S54 2021
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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
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