Indebted How Families Make College Work at Any Cost

Name: Indebted
Author: Caitlin Zaloom

Auteur: Caitlin Zaloom

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Caitlin Zaloom

Engels
Hardcover
9780691164311
03 september 2019
280 pagina's

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Taking readers into the homes of middle-class families to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life, the author describes the profound moral conflicts for parents take on enormous debts and gamble on an investment that might not pay off.

How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class families

The struggle to pay for college is one of the defining features of middle-class life in America today. At kitchen tables all across the country, parents agonize over whether to burden their children with loans or to sacrifice their own financial security by taking out a second mortgage or draining their retirement savings. Indebted takes readers into the homes of middle-class families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life.

Caitlin Zaloom gained the confidence of numerous parents and their college-age children, who talked candidly with her about stressful and intensely personal financial matters that are usually kept private. In this remarkable book, Zaloom describes the profound moral conflicts for parents as they try to honor what they see as their highest parental duty—providing their children with opportunity—and shows how parents and students alike are forced to take on enormous debts and gamble on an investment that might not pay off. What emerges is a troubling portrait of an American middle class fettered by the "student finance complex"—the bewildering labyrinth of government-sponsored institutions, profit-seeking firms, and university offices that collect information on household earnings and assets, assess family needs, and decide who is eligible for aid and who is not.

Superbly written and unflinchingly honest, Indebted breaks through the culture of silence surrounding the student debt crisis, revealing the unspoken costs of sending our kids to college.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 03 september 2019
Aantal pagina's: 280
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Hoofdauteur: Caitlin Zaloom
Hoofduitgeverij: Princeton University Press

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 155 mm
Product lengte: 235 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 144 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 30 mm
Verpakking lengte: 223 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 802 g

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EAN: 9780691164311

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