Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

Caitlin Zaloom on the ways families sacrifice financially to pay for for college (8/30/19)


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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. Caitlin Zaloom’s new book “Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost” 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. Join us for a discussion with Caitlin Zaloom on both the clear and hidden costs families shoulder for their child to receive a college education in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.
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