Advocacy

On March 18, 2025, the AFT sued the U.S. Department of Education (ED) for denying student loan borrowers’ access to affordable loan payments and blocking progress towards Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), in violation of federal law.

These fact sheets—created by Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC), Americans for Financial Reform (AFR), and Consumer Federation of America (CFA)—shed light on the number of Americans in each state who have reached out to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for help and have benefitted from the CFPB’s work to...

If confirmed, Linda McMahon will lead with blind loyalty to President Trump and help usher in his radical Project 2025 agenda at the expense of the American people.

This memo explores Elon Musk's plan to pivot Twitter/X to a payments company in partnership with the payments giant Visa—and the stark conflict of interest posed by that plan and his position leading DOGE.

This paper estimates the economic impact of student debt cancellation on borrower financial outcomes using a nationally-representative credit panel.

View our series of letters from SBPC and AFT to federal regulators referring MOHELA for prosecution.

AFT filed a groundbreaking consumer protection lawsuit against the Higher Education Loan Authority of the State of Missouri (MOHELA), the giant student loan servicing company under fire for mismanaging student loan accounts for millions of people. AFT is represented by the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC), National Consumer Law Center...

227 organizations representing millions urge ED to immediately unveil its NPRM to provide student loan debt relief to borrowers experiencing hardship.

Read the public comment submissions and borrower stories demonstrating the life-changing impact that President Biden’s new proposal would have.