Random House New Releases - Business & Economics - Education

Stop Out...Start Up by Alexandra Wolfe

2014-02-11T00:30:00-05:00

Stop Out...Start Up College Dropout Visionaries, Billionaire Entrepreneurs, and the New Silicon Valley Gold Rush
Written by Alexandra Wolfe

Hardcover, 240 pages | Crown | Social Science - Popular Culture; Business & Economics - Entrepreneurship; Business & Economics - Education | $25.00 | 978-0-7679-2189-3 (0-7679-2189-5)

Stop Out...Start Up by Alexandra Wolfe

2014-02-11T00:30:00-05:00

Stop Out...Start Up College Dropout Visionaries, Billionaire Entrepreneurs, and the New Silicon Valley Gold Rush
Written by Alexandra Wolfe

eBook, 240 pages | Crown | Social Science - Popular Culture; Business & Economics - Entrepreneurship; Business & Economics - Education | $ | 978-0-7704-3661-2 (0-7704-3661-7)

Stop Out...Start Up by Alexandra Wolfe

2014-02-11T00:30:00-05:00

Stop Out...Start Up College Dropout Visionaries, Billionaire Entrepreneurs, and the New Silicon Valley Gold Rush
Written by Alexandra Wolfe

Unabridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | Social Science - Popular Culture; Business & Economics - Entrepreneurship; Business & Economics - Education | $20.00 | 978-0-385-39413-0 (0-385-39413-6)

The Student Loan Scam by Alan Collinge

2010-02-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Student Loan Scam The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History and How We Can Fight Back
Written by Alan Collinge

Trade Paperback, 184 pages | Beacon Press | Education - Students & Student Life; Business & Economics - Education; Education - Higher | $20.00 | 978-0-8070-4231-1 (0-8070-4231-5)

The Student Loan Scam is an exposé of the predatory nature of the $85-billion student loan industry. In this in-depth exploration, Collinge argues that student loans have become the most profitable, uncompetitive, and oppressive type of debt in American history.

This has occurred in large part due to federal legislation passed since the mid-1990s that removed standard consumer protections from student loans-and allowed for massive penalties and draconian wealth-extraction mechanisms to collect this inflated debt. High school graduates can no longer put themselves through college for a few thousand dollars in loan debt. Today, the average undergraduate borrower leaves school with more than $20,000 in student loans, and for graduate students the average is a whopping $42,000. For the past twenty years, college tuition has increased at more than double the rate of inflation, with the cost largely shifting to student debt.

Collinge covers the history of student loans, the rise of Sallie Mae, and how universities have profited at the expense of students. The book includes candid and compelling stories from people across the country about how both nonprofit and for-profit student loan companies, aided by poor legislation, have shattered their lives-and livelihoods. With nearly 5 million defaulted loans, this crisis is growing to epic proportions.

The Student Loan Scam takes an unflinching look at this unprecedented and pressing problem, while exposing the powerful organizations and individuals who caused it to happen. Ultimately, Collinge argues for the return of standard consumer protections for student loans, among other pragmatic solutions, in this clarion call for social action.

(Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents by Nan Mooney

2009-05-01T00:30:00-05:00

(Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents The Decline of the Professional Middle Class
Written by Nan Mooney

Trade Paperback, 264 pages | Beacon Press | Social Science - Social Classes; Business & Economics - Education; Social Science | $16.00 | 978-0-8070-1139-3 (0-8070-1139-8)

Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with people all across America, (Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents explores how stagnant wages, debt, and escalating costs for tuition, health care, and home ownership are jeopardizing the finances and futures of today's educated middle class. Despite this sobering reality, Nan Mooney offers concrete ideas on how we can arrest this downward spiral.

The Student Loan Scam by Alan Collinge

2009-02-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Student Loan Scam The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History and How We Can Fight Back
Written by Alan Collinge

eBook | Beacon Press | Education - Students & Student Life; Business & Economics - Education; Education - Higher | $20.00 | 978-0-8070-9672-7 (0-8070-9672-5)

(Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents by Nan Mooney

2008-05-01T00:30:00-05:00

(Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents The Decline of the Professional Middle Class
Written by Nan Mooney

eBook | Beacon Press | Social Science - Social Classes; Business & Economics - Education; Social Science | $16.00 | 978-0-8070-9749-6 (0-8070-9749-7)

The first book to exclusively target the struggles of the professional middle class-educated individuals who purposely choose humanistic, intellectual, or creative pursuits-Nan Mooney's (Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents is a simultaneously sobering and proactive work that captures a diversity of voices.

Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with people all across America, (Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents explores how stagnant wages, debt, and escalating costs for tuition, health care, and home ownership are jeopardizing today's educated middle class. Teachers, counselors, nonprofit employees, environmentalists, journalists, and the author speak candidly about their sense of economic-and hence emotional-security, and their plans and fears about what's to come.

With up-to-date and accessible research, including a short history of the middle class, Mooney explains what it has meant historically to be middle class and how these definitions have changed so dramatically over the decades. She shows that social programs once aided the growth of this class but shifts in policies and labor practices-and increases in fixed costs, such as health care, housing, education, childcare, and household debt-are making it increasingly difficult for families to retain their middle-class status.

Throughout the book, Mooney uses real people's stories and an analysis of the new economic reality to put middle-class struggles in perspective: College tuition has increased 35 percent in the past five years, and while the average college undergraduate's debt is $20,000, earnings for graduates have remained stagnant since 2000. In addition, only 18 percent of middle-class families have three months' income saved, and 90 percent of those filing for bankruptcy are middle class. Finally, raising one child through age eighteen costs a middle-income family around $237,000, while the costs of housing, health care, and education are all rising faster than inflation.

Despite this difficult reality, Mooney offers concrete ideas on how individuals and society can arrest this downward spiral. Reigniting a sense of social responsibility is crucial-this ranges from improving government-backed education, health care, and childcare programs to drawing on successful models from individual states and other countries. Intimate personal accounts combined with Mooney's incisive analysis will make (Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents resonate deeply for America's professional middle class.

From the Hardcover edition.

What They Still Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School by Mark H. McCormack

1990-10-01T00:30:00-05:00

What They Still Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School
Written by Mark H. McCormack

Trade Paperback, 320 pages | Bantam | Business & Economics - Education; Biography & Autobiography - Business; Self Help - Success | $17.00 | 978-0-553-34961-0 (0-553-34961-9)

What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School by Mark H. McCormack

1986-06-01T00:30:00-05:00

What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School Notes From A Street-Smart Executive
Written by Mark H. McCormack

Trade Paperback, 272 pages | Bantam | Business & Economics - Education; Biography & Autobiography - Business; Self Help - Success | $18.00 | 978-0-553-34583-4 (0-553-34583-4)

Random House New Releases - Business & Economics - Education

Stop Out...Start Up by Alexandra Wolfe

Stop Out...Start Up College Dropout Visionaries, Billionaire Entrepreneurs, and the New Silicon Valley Gold RushWritten by Alexandra Wolfe

Stop Out...Start Up by Alexandra Wolfe

Stop Out...Start Up College Dropout Visionaries, Billionaire Entrepreneurs, and the New Silicon Valley Gold RushWritten by Alexandra Wolfe

Stop Out...Start Up by Alexandra Wolfe

Stop Out...Start Up College Dropout Visionaries, Billionaire Entrepreneurs, and the New Silicon Valley Gold RushWritten by Alexandra Wolfe

The Student Loan Scam by Alan Collinge

The Student Loan Scam The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History and How We Can Fight BackWritten by Alan Collinge

(Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents by Nan Mooney

(Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents The Decline of the Professional Middle ClassWritten by Nan Mooney

The Student Loan Scam by Alan Collinge

The Student Loan Scam The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History and How We Can Fight BackWritten by Alan Collinge

(Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents by Nan Mooney

(Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents The Decline of the Professional Middle ClassWritten by Nan Mooney

What They Still Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School by Mark H. McCormack

What They Still Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School Written by Mark H. McCormack

What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School by Mark H. McCormack

What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School Notes From A Street-Smart ExecutiveWritten by Mark H. McCormack

Stop Out...Start Up College Dropout Visionaries, Billionaire Entrepreneurs, and the New Silicon Valley Gold Rush
Written by Alexandra Wolfe

Stop Out...Start Up College Dropout Visionaries, Billionaire Entrepreneurs, and the New Silicon Valley Gold Rush
Written by Alexandra Wolfe

Stop Out...Start Up College Dropout Visionaries, Billionaire Entrepreneurs, and the New Silicon Valley Gold Rush
Written by Alexandra Wolfe

The Student Loan Scam The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History and How We Can Fight Back
Written by Alan Collinge

(Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents The Decline of the Professional Middle Class
Written by Nan Mooney

The Student Loan Scam The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History and How We Can Fight Back
Written by Alan Collinge

(Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents The Decline of the Professional Middle Class
Written by Nan Mooney

What They Still Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School
Written by Mark H. McCormack

What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School Notes From A Street-Smart Executive
Written by Mark H. McCormack