Join Oakland-based author and editor Ryann Liebenthal for a special after-hours event celebrating her new release, "Burdened," on September 10 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM at the Bookmark Bookstore.
“A strong case for turning onerous student loans to more economically productive ends—and for rethinking them altogether.” —Kirkus
"A trenchant examination of how higher education became unaffordable for all but the wealthiest Americans … [with] remarkably lucid policy discussions … accompanied by penetrating big-picture analysis." —Publishers Weekly
Liebenthal's "Burdened" recounts the maddening story of the student debt crisis in America, revealing the rotten policies, corrupt systems, and bad actors that have created an intergenerational fiasco.
Skyrocketing student-loan burdens are leading an entire generation to put off the traditional milestones of adulthood: buying homes, getting married, starting families, and saving for retirement. The burden weighs heavier on women and Black Americans, and with almost 10 percent of student debtors now over the age of sixty, it is a crisis no longer limited to the young.
In "Burdened," Liebenthal shows how the power plays of legislators and presidents, the commodification of higher education, and the rapacious practices of for-profit colleges and private lenders have created today’s student-debt lava pit. As the notion of student loan cancellation percolates into the political mainstream, Liebenthal offers a deeply researched, sweeping narrative of our broken system. Rather than give in to despair, she boldly charts a way out, offering hopeful solutions to this seemingly unfixable problem.
Author and editor Ryann Liebenthal has written for Harper’s Magazine, Mother Jones, n + 1, and the New Republic. She lives in Oakland, California and volunteers at the Bookmark Bookstore.
Support the Oakland Public Library by purchasing your copy of Liebenthal's book, "Burdened," via the Bookmark Bookstore's corner of Bookshop.org.
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