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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
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.