My book Sunk Cost, exposes the forgotten origins of the student loan system, how politicians have attempted to fix it, and the life-altering damage borrowers face.

Sunk Cost draws on my experience reporting on student debt for nearly a decade, but it also gave me the opportunity to pull back and tell in-depth stories about how policy is made and how it affects people's lives. I hope the book will help borrowers understand their plight as part of a broader system and push those who have little contact with student debt to rethink their assumptions about why it’s become a crisis. 

Publisher’s Weekly described Sunk Cost as “a lucid and rigorous account of an opaque bureaucratic history.” James Kvaal, the undersecretary of education in the Biden administration, said “readers wondering how debt relief became a top-tier political issue should confront the stories in Sunk Cost.”

Sunk Cost is available in a variety of places, including: The University of Chicago Press; Bookshop; Amazon and Barnes & Noble.