Powerful storytelling that exposes the structural cruelty baked into student lending. The detail about Parent PLUS loans being reconfigured overnight affecting 400K students crystalizes how policy shifts weaponize bureaucracy against the vulnerable. Alana's story hits hard because it shows debt operating as both barrier and sorting mechanism, pushing out students mid-semester after they've alerady relocated their entire lives. The wage garnishment piece at the end connects this to ongoing enforcement violence - the system extracts payment even from those it pushed out. I've watched freinds navigate this exact impossible math, balancing unpayable tuition against lost semester credits.
"Impossible math" is the perfect way to describe it. Thank you so much for reading and feel free to share. Have you had a chance to read the entire book?
Powerful storytelling that exposes the structural cruelty baked into student lending. The detail about Parent PLUS loans being reconfigured overnight affecting 400K students crystalizes how policy shifts weaponize bureaucracy against the vulnerable. Alana's story hits hard because it shows debt operating as both barrier and sorting mechanism, pushing out students mid-semester after they've alerady relocated their entire lives. The wage garnishment piece at the end connects this to ongoing enforcement violence - the system extracts payment even from those it pushed out. I've watched freinds navigate this exact impossible math, balancing unpayable tuition against lost semester credits.
"Impossible math" is the perfect way to describe it. Thank you so much for reading and feel free to share. Have you had a chance to read the entire book?