Indebted : how families make college work at any cost / Caitlin Zaloom.

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Zaloom, Caitlin

9780691164311

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LB2340.2 .Z35 2019

Contents:

Best laid plans -- The model family -- Enmeshed autonomy -- Race and upward mobility -- Cultivating potential -- Conclusion: a right to the future.

Summary: "How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class families. The struggle to pay for college is one of the defining features of middle-class life in American today. At kitchen tables all across the country, parents agonize over whether to burden their children with loans or to sacrifice their own financial security by taking out a second mortgage or draining their retirement savings. Indebted takes readers into the homes of middle-class families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life....What emerges is a troubling portrait of an American middle class fettered by the 'student finance complex'--the bewildering labyrinth of government-sponsored institutions, profit-seeking firms, and university offices that collect information on household earnings and assets, assess family needs, and decide who is elligible for aid and who is not." --book jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-255) and index.

Best laid plans -- The model family -- Enmeshed autonomy -- Race and upward mobility -- Cultivating potential -- Conclusion: a right to the future.

"How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class families. The struggle to pay for college is one of the defining features of middle-class life in American today. At kitchen tables all across the country, parents agonize over whether to burden their children with loans or to sacrifice their own financial security by taking out a second mortgage or draining their retirement savings. Indebted takes readers into the homes of middle-class families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life....What emerges is a troubling portrait of an American middle class fettered by the 'student finance complex'--the bewildering labyrinth of government-sponsored institutions, profit-seeking firms, and university offices that collect information on household earnings and assets, assess family needs, and decide who is elligible for aid and who is not." --book jacket.

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