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050 0 0 _aLB2342.4 .U6
_bS54 2021
099 _a379.121
_aS
100 1 _aShermer, Elizabeth Tandy,
245 1 0 _aIndentured students :
_bhow government-guaranteed loans left generations drowning in college debt /
_cElizabeth Tandy Shermer.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
_c2021.
300 _apages cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aCollege costs
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aDebt
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aEducational equalization
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aFederal aid to higher education
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aStudent loans
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
999 _c522531
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