Default : the student loan documentary
(2014, original release: 2012)
Nonfiction
eVideo
Details
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 video file, 27 min.)
ISBN/ISSN
1079006
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 2012
Just a few years after the subprime mortgage crisis, there are ominous signs that the student loan market is on the verge of collapsing, yet another casualty of predatory lending practices. Default brings this perilous situation into sharp relief, chronicling the stories of borrowers who find themselves in the paralyzing predicament of having to repay far more than what they borrowed -- with no bankruptcy protection, and no recourse under the law. The result is at once an accessible analysis of a mounting economic crisis, and a cautionary tale for students
Grade 9+
Higher education
Mode of access: World Wide Web