
The Debt Trap
How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe
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Jonathan Todd Ross
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Josh Mitchell
AN NPR AND NEW YORK POST BEST BOOK OF 2021
From acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell, the “devastating account” (The Wall Street Journal) of student debt in America.
In 1981, a new executive at Sallie Mae took home the company’s financial documents to review. “You’ve got to be shitting me,” he later told the company’s CEO. “This place is a gold mine.”
Over the next four decades, the student loan industry that Sallie Mae and Congress created blew up into a crisis that would submerge a generation of Americans in $1.5 trillion in student debt. In The Debt Trap, Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell tells the “vivid and compelling” (Chicago Tribune) untold story of the scandals, scams, predatory actors, and government malpractice that have created the behemoth that one of its original architects called a “monster.”
As he charts the “jaw-dropping” (Jeffrey Selingo, New York Times bestselling author of Who Gets in and Why) seventy-year history of student debt in America, Mitchell never loses sight of the countless student victims ensnared by an exploitative system that depends on their debt. Mitchell also draws alarming parallels to the housing crisis in the late 2000s, showing the catastrophic consequences student debt has had on families and the nation’s future. Mitchell’s character-driven narrative is “necessary reading” (The New York Times) for anyone wanting to understand the central economic issue of our day.
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Unbiased and well researched
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The history of education debt
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This book provides some excellent perspective. It delivers a history of government involvement in (whether regulating, encouraging, or underwriting) student loans for post-secondary education. It documents the cozy relationship between the federal government and campus financial-aid offices in encouraging students and their families to borrow more and more to attend the school of the students' choice. It explains how the Obama Administration encourage everyone collecting unemployment benefits during the 2008-09 recession to borrow money to go back to school to learn new vocational and professional skills.
Do you want to be armed with the historical facts to understand and participate in the debate over whether to discharge student debt? (Note: I don't use the term "forgive" because that implies that the party to whom money is owed is willing to take the hit for non-payment, whereas in this situation the taxpayers, not the politicians, will pay the bill.) If so, you'll have a hard time understanding and contributing if you don't grasp the information in this book.
An Excellent History of Student Debt
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Great great great
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Relevant and to the point
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A must read for all future college students and parents
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stay out a debt at all costs
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I had no idea!
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No matter your political orientation, this book should solidify 3 thoughts.
1. Colleges need more responsibility and “skin in the game” to charge students exorbitant tuition. No student loan forgiveness will stop this from happening again
2. Privatizing profits and socializing losses is NOT how a free market should work.
3. We have failed the American people and those 35 and under. This entire system needs reform and change
Enlightening and discouraging
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Not a bad read….
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