Paying The Price

Author : Sara Goldrick-Rab
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226404486

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A “bracing and well-argued” study of America’s college debt crisis—“necessary reading for anyone concerned about the fate of American higher education” (Kirkus). College is far too expensive for many people today, and the confusing mix of federal, state, institutional, and private financial aid leaves countless students without the resources they need to pay for it. In Paying the Price, education scholar Sara Goldrick-Rab reveals the devastating effect of these shortfalls. Goldrick-Rab examines a study of 3,000 students who used the support of federal aid and Pell Grants to enroll in public colleges and universities in Wisconsin in 2008. Half the students in the study left college without a degree, while less than 20 percent finished within five years. The cause of their problems, time and again, was lack of money. Unable to afford tuition, books, and living expenses, they worked too many hours at outside jobs, dropped classes, took time off to save money, and even went without adequate food or housing. In many heartbreaking cases, they simply left school—not with a degree, but with crippling debt. Goldrick-Rab combines that data with devastating stories of six individual students, whose struggles make clear the human and financial costs of our convoluted financial aid policies. In the final section of the book, Goldrick-Rab offers a range of possible solutions, from technical improvements to the financial aid application process, to a bold, public sector–focused “first degree free” program. "Honestly one of the most exciting books I've read, because [Goldrick-Rab has] solutions. It's a manual that I'd recommend to anyone out there, if you're a parent, if you're a teacher, if you're a student."—Trevor Noah, The Daily Show

Author : Mark Zandi
Publisher : FT Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780132180191

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Only a few years ago, the U.S. financial system and economy were near collapse. Global financial institutions teetered and fell, while at once-mighty U.S. companies, panicked CEOs slashed jobs. The financial chaos inflicted catastrophic damage: double-digit unemployment; crashing house and stock prices; federal budget deficits in the trillions, and a wider gap between the country’s haves and have-nots. Today many Americans still feel shell-shocked. But while there remains much to be nervous and frustrated about, it is impressive how much progress has been made in righting the wrongs that got us into this mess. The economy is growing and steadily creating jobs; house prices are stable and stock prices are up; debt burdens have eased for most households and the financial system has shored up its foundations to an impressive degree. American companies are as competitive globally as they have been in a half century. This dramatic turn in the economy’s fortunes occurred because of what government did to stem the financial panic and combat the effects of Great Recession. Policymakers’ unprecedented actions – from Congress’ auto and bank bailouts and fiscal stimulus, to the Federal Reserve’s zero interest rates and quantitative easing – remain intensely controversial, but ultimately they will be judged a success. Serious problems remain, including the government’s mounting debt load and a burgeoning number of disenfranchised workers, but we are on our way to addressing them. Our economic future has arguably never been brighter.

Author : I. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0982423381

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You Are Destined for Greatness. Are You Willing to PAY THE PRICE?

Author : Marty Makary
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781635574128

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New York Times bestseller Business Book of the Year--Association of Business Journalists From the New York Times bestselling author comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system--and the people who are saving it--now with a new Afterword by the author. "A must-read for every American." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBES One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research, and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of the business of medicine and its elusive money games in need of a serious shake-up. Dr. Makary shows how so much of health care spending goes to things that have nothing to do with health and what you can do about it. Dr. Makary challenges the medical establishment to remember medicine's noble heritage of caring for people when they are vulnerable. The Price We Pay offers a road map for everyday Americans and business leaders to get a better deal on their health care, and profiles the disruptors who are innovating medical care. The movement to restore medicine to its mission, Makary argues, is alive and well--a mission that can rebuild the public trust and save our country from the crushing cost of health care.

Author : Clive R. Belfield,Henry M. Levin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780815708650

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While the high cost of education draws headlines, the cost of not educating America's children goes largely ignored. The Price We Pay remedies this oversight by highlighting the private and public costs of inadequate education. In this volume, leading scholars from a broad range of fields—including economics, education, demography, and public health—attach hard numbers to the relationship between educational attainment and such critical indicators as income, health, crime, dependence on public assistance, and political participation. They explore policy interventions that could boost the education system's performance and explain why demographic trends make the challenge of educating our youth so urgent today. Improving educational outcomes for at-risk youth is more than a noble goal. It is an investment with the potential to yield benefits that far outstrip its costs. The Price We Pay provides the tools readers need to analyze both sides of the balance sheet and make informed decisions about which policies will pay off. Contributors include Thomas Bailey (Teachers College, Columbia University), Ronald F. Ferguson (Harvard University), Irwin Garfinkel (Columbia University), Jane Junn (Rutgers University), Brendan Kelly (Columbia University), Enrico Moretti (UCLA), Peter Muennig (Columbia University), Michael Rebell (Teachers College, Columbia University), Richard Rothstein (Teachers College, Columbia University), Cecilia E. Rouse (Princeton University), Marta Tienda (Princeton University), Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University), and Tamara Wilder (Teachers College, Columbia University).

Author : Graham Broad
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774823654

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A Small Price to Pay by Graham Broad Pdf

We often picture life on the Canadian home front as a time of austerity, as a time when women went to work and men went to war. Graham Broad explodes this myth of home front sacrifice by bringing to light the contradictions of consumer society in wartime. Governments pressured Depression-weary citizens to save for the sake of the nation, but Canadians had money in their pockets, and advertisers tempted them with fresh groceries, glamorous movies, and new cars and appliances. Broad reveals that our "greatest generation" was not impervious to temptation but rather embarked on one of the biggest spending booms in our nation's history.

Author : Joseph Fadelle
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621640301

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During his military service, Muhammad, a young Muslim Iraqi from a leading Shiite family, discovers to his dismay that his roommate is a Christian. Muhammad tries to convert his roommate, but he is the one who is converted. In Islam changing one's religion is a crime, and Muhammad's family does everything possible to make him renounce his new faith in Christ. After threats and blows come prison and torture. Muhammad, who has become Joseph by his baptism, experiences a long Calvary but does not give in. Finally, he is taken from prison by relatives who threaten to kill him if he does not resubmit to Islam. They shoot him and leave him for dead. The Price to Pay is the true story of Joseph Fadelle's conversion to Catholicism. He risks everything-family, friends, his inheritance and home, and even his life-in order to follow Christ. In a dramatic and personal narrative style, Fadelle reveals the horrible persecution endured by Christians living in a violent and hostile Muslim world.

Author : Madge Tennent Walls
Publisher : Dialogue Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Divorced women
ISBN : 0976490471

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Author : Aidan Truhen
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525434986

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In this audacious, lightning-paced thriller, a smart-mouthed, white-collar drug dealer--a hilariously irreverent antihero--seeks revenge when an unknown enemy takes out a contract on him. Jack Price is having a bad day. What he absolutely did not need was for someone to execute his grouchy old neighbor as if she was a drug mule. Questions will be asked, and Jack is a small businessman in a competitive sector hobbled by red tape and, you know: laws. Just because the product Jack trades in is cocaine, people assume it’s all guns and murders, but that is the old cocaine business and Jack is all about the new one: high-tech, high-end and on-demand. But when Jack begins making some inquiries with a view to calming the whole thing down, someone hires the Seven Demons to kill him. You bring those people in to kill generals and presidents and take down countries, not to mess with a guy who’s just trying to get along. The thing is that the Seven Demons and their client have misunderstood the situation. Jack is not upset. In fact, he’s grateful for the clarification. Jack is the kind of guy who adapts well to new business models. He has a unique approach to executive problem solving. In fact, Jack is batshit crazy. And when you mess with Jack, there is a Price to be paid.

Author : James Risen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780544341418

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The author reveals what he sees as the hidden costs of the War on Terror—from squandered and stolen dollars, to outrageous abuses of power, to wars on normalcy, decency and truth. By the author of State of War. 75,000 first printing.

Author : Lois Whitman
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0929692152

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Author : Margaret Randall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317959038

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In The Price We Pay, Margaret Randall interviews women from a wide range of economic, racial, and cultural backgrounds to reveal the role money plays in their lives. These women speak of their changing expectations and attitudes regarding money. Daughters of immigrants remember what money meant in the transition between worlds. They disclose the feelings that they have of stigma or shame at not having enough, guilt at having too much, and the lies, secrets and silences caused by these feelings. These personal stories are woven into a history of women's economics and chapters on family, work, the media, power and control, and lesbian economics.

Author : Tara Joyce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1771806044

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Pay What It's Worth by Tara Joyce Pdf

What if the customer determined the price they pay based upon the value they receive? How might that change things? Pay What It's Worth pricing is a system allowing for a different way of valuing the products, services, and experiences we have and exchange with others. Each of us has the power and ability to create our own economy, and approach to valuing products and services. In Pay What It's Worth: You Don't Need to Set a Price on Value, you'll explore the power and potential, as well as the pitfalls, of not setting prices. Mutually beneficial exchanges are possible and sustainable for you, as a business owner, and as a customer. Your integrity is your most valuable wealth creation tool.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Aged
ISBN : UCR:31210010728390

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Paying the Price of Catastrophic Illness by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Chronic diseases
ISBN : PSU:000012761678

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Paying the Price of Catastrophic Illness, from Accidents to Alzheimer's by Anonim Pdf