The Debt Trap
How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe
$45.71
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
9 August 2022
Summary
AN NPR AND NEW YORK POST BEST BOOK OF 2021
From acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell, the “devastating account” 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 ge…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781501199479 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1501199471 |
| Author: | Josh Mitchell |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 9 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 331g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 141mm x 213mm |
| Series: | A Study of Education and Economics |
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Josh Mitchell
Josh Mitchell is a reporter in the Washington bureau of The Wall Street Journal, writing about the economy and higher education. In 2016, the Education Writers Association named him the nation’s top education beat reporter among large publications, calling his reporting “unique, comprehensive, illuminating, and a must-read for policymakers, prospective and current college students, and their parents.” He lives and works in Washington, DC.
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