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Author Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy, author.

Title Indentured students : how government-guaranteed loans left generations drowning in college debt / Elizabeth Tandy Shermer.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
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Description viii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Drowning in debt -- Honorably financing college -- Will work for school -- A bill of rights for only some GIs -- The fizzled response to Sputnik -- Federally guaranteed students -- Reauthorizing the loan industry -- Bankers lose their sweetheart deal -- Epilogue: A brave new world of indentured students.
Summary "It is widely understood that student loan assistance has inflated college tuition, student debt, and lender profits. Less often recognized is that these outcomes were intended. Elizabeth Tandy Shermer uncovers the history of federal student loans, showing that they were designed to appease constituencies opposed to affordable higher education"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Federal aid to higher education -- United States -- History.
Student loans -- United States -- History.
College costs -- United States -- History.
Debt -- United States -- History.
Educational equalization -- United States -- History.
College costs. (OCoLC)fst00867748
Debt. (OCoLC)fst00888768
Educational equalization. (OCoLC)fst00903418
Federal aid to higher education. (OCoLC)fst00922204
Student loans. (OCoLC)fst01431545
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Student loan funds.
College costs.
Debt.
Education -- Aims and objectives.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780674251489 (hardcover)
0674251482 (hardcover)

 
    
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