Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt

by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

Book Overview

The untold history of how America's student-loan program turned the pursuit of higher education into a pathway to poverty. It didn't always take thirty years to pay off the cost of a bachelor's degree. Elizabeth Tandy Shermer untangles the history that brought us here and discovers that the story of skyrocketing college debt is not merely one of good intentions gone wrong. In fact, the federal student loan program was never supposed to make college...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674251482
• ISBN13: 9780674251489
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.4"