The real college debt crisis
Subtitle: how student borrowing threatens financial well-being and erodes the American dream
By: William Elliott III with Melinda K. Lewis
Contributors: Lewis, Melinda K.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781440836466; 9781440836473
Subjects: College graduates; Personal Finance; Government policy; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Personal Finance / Money Management; Student loans; Debt; Student aid
Description: "The central motivation for this book is imagining an alternative to the student loan program that better aligns with America's belief that effort and ability should be the deciding factors in determining economic differences. It positions postsecondary education properly as the central lever by which American children can secure for themselves promising futures, and it supports analysis of the extent to which current policy interventions facilitate these mechanisms, or not"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-238) and index.