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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2014.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780520958449 |