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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Best, Joel (Author), Best, Eric (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Student loans > Government policy.
Student loans.
College graduates > Finance, Personal.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Diplômes d'universite > États-Unis > Finances personnelles.
Prêts d'etudes > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Prêts d'etudes > États-Unis.
College graduates > United States > Finance, Personal.
Student loans > Government policy > United States.
Student loans > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9780520958449

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