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

The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem
ISBN-10
0520287525
ISBN-13
9780520287525
Category
Social Science
Pages
248
Language
English
Published
2014-05-02
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Authors
Joel Best, Eric Best

Description

"Student loan debt in the U.S. now exceeds $1 trillion, more than the nation's credit-card debt. This timely book explains how and why student loans evolved, the concerns they've raised along the way, and how each policy designed to fix student loans winds up making things worse. The authors, a father and son team, provide an intergenerational, interdisciplinary approach to understanding how, over the last 70 years, Americans incrementally, with the best intentions, created our current student loan disaster. They examine the competing interests and shifting societal expectations that contributed to the problem, and offer recommendations for confronting the larger problem of college costs and student borrowing in the future"--

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