TY  - BOOK
AU  - Best,Joel
AU  - Best,Eric
TI  - The student loan mess: how good intentions created a trillion-dollar problem 
SN  - 0520276450 (hardback)
AV  - LB2340.2 .B48 2014
U1  - 378.3/62 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - College graduates
KW  - United States
KW  - Finance, Personal
KW  - Student loans
KW  - Government policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-229) and index
N2  - "Student loan debt in the U.S. now exceeds $1 trillion, more than the nation's credit-card debt. This timely book explains how and why student loans evolved, the concerns they've raised along the way, and how each policy designed to fix student loans winds up making things worse. The authors, a father and son team, provide an intergenerational, interdisciplinary approach to understanding how, over the last 70 years, Americans incrementally, with the best intentions, created our current student loan disaster. They examine the competing interests and shifting societal expectations that contributed to the problem, and offer recommendations for confronting the larger problem of college costs and student borrowing in the future"--
ER  -