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

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.

About the author

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer has written about labor, politics, and education for the Washington Post, HuffPost, and Dissent. Author of Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics, she is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Shermer Elizabeth Tandy
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2021
• EAN: 9780674251489
• ISBN: 978-0-674-25148-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; Travel > Travel guides; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Education, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Business studies: general, Political Economy, United States of America, USA, Educational strategies & policy, History of the Americas, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Educational strategies and policy, Funding of education & student finance, Funding of education and student finance