Burdened Student debt and the making of an American crisis
Book - 2024
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.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Informational works
- Published
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New York, NY :
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- 323 pages ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-303) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780358353966
- 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.