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The Student Loan Mess : How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem /

This illuminating investigation uncovers the full dimensions of the student loan disaster. A father and son team-one a best-selling sociologist, the other a former banker and current quantitative researcher-probes how we've reached the point at which student loan debt-now exceeding 1 trillion a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Best, Joel (Autor), Best, Eric (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This illuminating investigation uncovers the full dimensions of the student loan disaster. A father and son team-one a best-selling sociologist, the other a former banker and current quantitative researcher-probes how we've reached the point at which student loan debt-now exceeding 1 trillion and predicted to reach 2 trillion by 2020-threatens to become the sequel to the mortgage meltdown. In spite of their good intentions, Americans have allowed concerns about deadbeat students, crushing debt, exploitative for-profit colleges, and changing attitudes about the purpose of college education to.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9780520958449