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Indentured Students - 9780674251489

Description: Indentured StudentsHow Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt Author(s): Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Format: Hardback Publisher: Harvard University Press, United States Imprint: Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 9780674251489, 978-0674251489 Synopsis The untold history of how America's student-loan program turned the pursuit of higher education into a pathway to poverty. It didn't always take thirty years to pay off the cost of a bachelor's degree. Elizabeth Tandy Shermer untangles the history that brought us here and discovers that the story of skyrocketing college debt is not merely one of good intentions gone wrong. In fact, the federal student loan program was never supposed to make college affordable. The earliest federal proposals for college affordability sought to replace tuition with taxpayer funding of institutions. But Southern whites feared that lower costs would undermine segregation, Catholic colleges objected to state support of secular institutions, professors worried that federal dollars would come with regulations hindering academic freedom, and elite-university presidents recoiled at the idea of mass higher education. Cold War congressional fights eventually made access more important than affordability. Rather than freeing colleges from their dependence on tuition, the government created a loan instrument that made college accessible in the short term but even costlier in the long term by charging an interest penalty only to needy students. In the mid-1960s, as bankers wavered over the prospect of uncollected debt, Congress backstopped the loans, provoking runaway inflation in college tuition and resulting in immense lender profits. Today 45 million Americans owe more than $[url] trillion in college debt, with the burdens falling disproportionately on borrowers of color, particularly women. Reformers, meanwhile, have been frustrated by colleges and lenders too rich and powerful to contain. Indentured Students makes clear that these are not unforeseen consequences. The federal student loan system is working as designed.

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Book Title: Indentured Students

Subject Area: Social Organisations

Item Height: 235 mm

Item Width: 156 mm

Author: Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

Publication Name: Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Subject: Economics, Government, Finance, Strategy, History, Business

Publication Year: 2021

Type: Textbook

Number of Pages: 400 Pages

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