Game of Loans (eBook)

The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt

Beth Akers, Matthew M. Chingos (Autoren)

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2016
192 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8327-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Beth Akers is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Matthew M. Chingos is director of the Education Policy Program at the Urban Institute and the coauthor of Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities (Princeton).

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Why fears about a looming student loan crisis are unfounded-and how they obscure what's really wrong with student lendingCollege tuition and student debt levels have been rising at an alarming pace for at least two decades. These trends, coupled with an economy weakened by a major recession, have raised serious questions about whether we are headed for a major crisis, with borrowers defaulting on their loans in unprecedented numbers and taxpayers being forced to foot the bill. Game of Loans draws on new evidence to explain why such fears are misplaced-and how the popular myth of a looming crisis has obscured the real problems facing student lending in America.Bringing needed clarity to an issue that concerns all of us, Beth Akers and Matthew Chingos cut through the sensationalism and misleading rhetoric to make the compelling case that college remains a good investment for most students. They show how, in fact, typical borrowers face affordable debt burdens, and argue that the truly serious cases of financial hardship portrayed in the media are less common than the popular narrative would have us believe. But there are more troubling problems with student loans that don't receive the same attention. They include high rates of avoidable defaults by students who take on loans but don't finish college-the riskiest segment of borrowers-and a dysfunctional market where competition among colleges drives tuition costs up instead of down.Persuasive and compelling, Game of Loans moves beyond the emotionally charged and politicized talk surrounding student debt, and offers a set of sensible policy proposals that can solve the real problems in student lending.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2016
• Reihe/Serie: The William G. Bowen Series
• Reihe/Serie: The William G. Bowen Series
• Zusatzinfo: 25 b/w illus., 6 tables
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Ability to pay • Ability To Repay • Academic year • At Best • Attendance • Bachelor's degree • Bankruptcy • Brookings Institution • Calculation • Career • Cohort default rate • College Board • collegiality • community college • consumer • Consumer Expenditure Survey • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau • Cost–benefit analysis • Cost of attendance • credit card debt • Credit (finance) • credit history • debt • debt limit • Debt Load • Default rate • Disposable and discretionary income • Economics • economist • editorial • Employment • Expense • fafsa • federal student aid • Finance • Financial Crisis • Financial Distress • forbearance • For-profit higher education in the United States • Funding • Government Debt • Graduate school • Great Recession • Home Equity • Household • income • Income-contingent repayment • Income Share Agreement • Industry Group • Institution • Interest • Interest Rate • Internal Revenue Service • Investment • investment income • Investor • List price • Loan guarantee • Loan servicing • Manuscript • Milton Friedman • mortgage loan • Nonprofit Organization • Pay as You Earn (PAYE) - Federal Student Loan Relief Program • Payment • percentage • PLUS Loan • Poverty • Princeton University Press • Private School • private sector • Private student loan (United States) • private university • Project • Provision (accounting) • Public institution (United States) • Public university • Rate of return • Real estate appraisal • Recession • repayment • repayment plan • Retirement • salary • Sara Goldrick-Rab • Stafford Loan • Student • Student Debt • student loan • Subsidy • Survey of Consumer Finances • Tax • tax credit • Taxpayer • Tuition payments • undergraduate education • Unemployment • United States Department of Education • welfare • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8327-X / 140088327X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8327-1 / 9781400883271