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The real college debt crisis : how student borrowing threatens financial well-being and erodes the American dream /

Elliott, William, III.

The real college debt crisis : how student borrowing threatens financial well-being and erodes the American dream / William Elliott III with Melinda K. Lewis. - xiv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-238) and index.

"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"--

9781440836466 (hardback : acidfree paper)

2015008159


Student loans--United States.
Student loans--Government policy--United States.
College graduates--Finance, Personal.--United States
Student aid--United States.
Debt--United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Personal Finance / Money Management.

LB2340.2 / .E47 2015

378.3/62

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