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Indentured students : how government-guaranteed loans left generations drowning in college debt / Elizabeth Tandy Shermer.
Van Pelt Library LB2342.4.U6 S54 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Federal aid to higher education--United States--History.
- Federal aid to higher education.
- Student loans--United States--History.
- Student loans.
- College costs--United States--History.
- College costs.
- Debt--United States--History.
- Debt.
- Educational equalization--United States--History.
- Educational equalization.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Honorably Financing College
- 2. Will Work For School
- 3. A Bill of Rights for only Some Gis
- 4. The Fizzled Response To Sputnik
- 5. Federally Guaranteed Students
- 6. Reauthorizing the Loan Industry
- 7. Bankers Lose Their Sweetheart Deal.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780674251489
- 0674251482
- OCLC:
- 1235871803
- Publisher Number:
- 99988322351
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