Burdened student debt and the making of an American crisis
Ryann Liebenthal's Burdened tells the maddening story of how the power plays of legislators and presidents, the commodification of higher education, and the rapacious practices of for-profit colleges and private lenders have created today's student-debt lava pit.
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New York, NY :
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1: The era of missed opportunities (1941-1971). The GI bill of goods
- Reading, writing, and Sputnik
- The education president
- Part 2: A market is born (1972-1995). Market actors
- Profits and loss
- The Reagan regression
- Grift revisited
- Part 3: Finance rules (1996-2007). Iron triangles
- A bankrupt system
- "Borrowers are the product"
- Part 4: Debtors unite (2008-). The collective debtor
- Biden time
- Past due
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.
