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Indentured students : how government-guaranteed loans left generations drowning in college debt / Elizabeth Tandy Shermer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021Copyright date: �2021Description: 1 online resource (viii, 382 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674269798
  • 0674269799
  • 9780674269804
  • 0674269802
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 379.1/2140973 23
LOC classification:
  • LB2342.4.U6
  • LB2342.4.U6 S54 2021
Online resources:
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.
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
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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

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 9, 2021).

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