TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shermer,Elizabeth Tandy
TI  - Indentured students: how government-guaranteed loans left generations drowning in college debt 
SN  - 9780674251489
AV  - LB2342.4 .U6 S54 2021
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - College costs
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Debt
KW  - Educational equalization
KW  - Federal aid to higher education
KW  - Student loans
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -