{"id":23688,"date":"2010-05-23T10:43:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T15:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=23688"},"modified":"2013-12-15T02:55:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T07:55:22","slug":"number-of-college-students-owing-40000-in-school-loans-1996-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/05\/23\/number-of-college-students-owing-40000-in-school-loans-1996-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of College Students Owing $40,000+ in Loans, 1996-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticas.org\/\">The Institute for College Access and Success<\/a> shows that the number of students who graduate with at least $40,000 in student loans increased nine-fold between 1996 and 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/05\/23\/number-of-college-students-owing-40000-in-school-loans-1996-2008\/capture-115\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23689\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23689\" title=\"Capture\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/Capture6.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nortonbooks.typepad.com\/everydaysociology\/2010\/05\/consuming-education.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sally Raskoff at Everyday Sociology<\/a>offers some explanations for the data:\u00a0 (1)\u00a0 College has been getting more expensive; among other reasons, states cut education budgets.\u00a0 (2)\u00a0 For-profit colleges have also become a larger proportion of all colleges and students in these colleges are more likely to take out loans.\u00a0\u00a0 (3)\u00a0 Given a bad economy, students are less likely to have jobs while in school.\u00a0 Other explanations?\u00a0 Stories?<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data from The Institute for College Access and Success shows that the number of students who graduate with at least $40,000 in student loans increased nine-fold between 1996 and 2008. Sally Raskoff at Everyday Sociologyoffers some explanations for the data:\u00a0 (1)\u00a0 College has been getting more expensive; among other reasons, states cut education budgets.\u00a0 (2)\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,36,12498,34,253,304,76],"class_list":["post-23688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-economics","tag-economics-great-recession","tag-education","tag-history","tag-the-state","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23688"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60197,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23688\/revisions\/60197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}