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If you're a person, and you simply work hard enough, you can get a college or university degree and set yourself in relation to a good life, right? Definitely not, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, and with Paying the Price, she shows in damning information exactly why. Drawing on an unprecedented analysis of 3,000 young adults who entered general population colleges and universities in Wisconsin in 2008 with the support of federal government aid and Pell Grants, Goldrick-Rab shows the devastating aftereffect of these shortfalls. One half the students in the analysis left college with out a degree, while less than 20 percent completed within five years. The reason for their problems, time and again, was insufficient money. Unable to afford tuition, books, and bills, they worked way too many hours at outside the house jobs, dropped classes, had taken time off to save lots of money, and even went without sufficient food or housing. In lots of heartbreaking circumstances, they simply kept college - not with a qualification, but with crippling credit debt. Goldrick-Rab combines that stunning data with damaging tales of six individual students, whose battles make clear the horrifying human being and financial costs of your convoluted school funding policies.
