The
student loan mess
how good intentions created a trillion-dollar problem
Best, Joel Gordon
1946-
creator
Best, Eric.
text
bibliography
cau
2014
monographic
eng
ix, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"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"--
Good intentions and wasted brainpower: the first student loan mess
Disillusionment and deadbeats: the second student loan mess
Outrage and crushing debt: the third student loan mess
Dread and the for-profit bubble: the fourth student loan mess
What's next? Prospective student loan messes
Beyond making messes?
Joel Best, Eric Best.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-229) and index.
n-us---
Student loans
United States
Student loans
Government policy
United States
College graduates
United States
Finance, Personal
Préstamo para estudiantes
Estados Unidos
Crédito educativo
Estados Unidos
Egresados universitarios
Finanzas
Estados Unidos
LB 2340.2 B561s 2014
378.3/62
9780520276451 (hardback)
0520276450 (hardback)
2013043272
DLC
131114
20230411090825.0
17942097
eng