Excerpt from The Debt Trap by Josh Mitchell, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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The Debt Trap by Josh Mitchell

The Debt Trap

How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

by Josh Mitchell
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  • Aug 3, 2021, 272 pages
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  • Aug 2022, 272 pages
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I asked her in early 2019, two months before she died, how that system turned out.

She didn't hesitate: "We unleashed a monster."

Excerpted from The Debt Trap by Josh Mitchell. Copyright © 2021 by Josh Mitchell. Excerpted by permission of Simon & Schuster. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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