Student loans
By: Dedria Bryfonski, book editor
Series: At issue. Education; At issue
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farmington Hills, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9780737756005; 9780737756012
Subjects: Student loans; Juvenile literature; Government policy
Description: Presents a collection of essays on a variety of loans for college education and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of student loans.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Federally guaranteed student loans are good debt / Sandra Block; title: Student loans are toxic debt / Mary Pilon; title: Student loans lack consumer protections / Alan Collinge; title: Student loan defaults are the result of bad decisions / Jacob Sullum; title: The recession makes it hard to repay student loans / Samantha Hillstrom; title: Most people easily repay their student loans / James Monks; title: Student loan debt should be forgiven to stimulate the economy / Robert Applebaum; title: Forgiving student loan debt would be irresponsible / Brian Kumnick; title: Pell grants are needed to make America competitive / Pat Garofalo; title: Pell grants raise the cost of college and cause education inequality / Richard Vedder; title: For-profit education resembles the subprime mortgage industry / Steven Eisman; title: For-profit education does not resemble the subprime mortgage industry / Harris N. Miller; title: Low-income students take on too much debt at for-profit colleges / Arnold Mitchem; title: Excessive regulation of student debt will harm low-income students / Lanny J. Davis; title: Holding for-profit colleges more accountable helps low-income students / Marybeth Gasman; title: Student debt creates conditions much like indentured servitude / Jeffrey J. Williams.