Advocacy

The data underscore how default has disastrous consequences for borrowers and their families. For many, default is a lifetime sentence, and America’s most vulnerable communities—older, low-income, borrowers with disabilities, and Black borrowers—are disproportionately impacted.

The data underscore how default has disastrous consequences for borrowers and their families. For many, default is a lifetime sentence, and America’s most vulnerable communities—older, low-income, borrowers with disabilities, and Black borrowers—are disproportionately impacted.

AFT and Student Borrower Protection Center urge the Inspectors General for the U.S. Department of Education and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to probe these agencies’ handling of their shared oversight responsibility over the $1.6 trillion federal student loan market. This comes just after nine state attorneys general and financial...

186 organizations representing millions of students, borrowers, workers, people of color, veterans, women, people with disabilities, and consumers crushed under the weight of student loan debt submitted a comment in response to the U.S. Department of Education’s notice of its intent to establish negotiated rule making aimed at overhauling the...

On April 28, 2025, ahead of the House Education and Workforce Committee’s mark up, Republican leaders on the committee released their draft budget reconciliation bill. In response, the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) sent a letter to the Committee Chairman Tim Walberg and Ranking Member Bobby Scott warning of the...

SBPC released the results of a months-long investigation into the tech company Prehired, exposing how the firm had resumed its scheme to push worthless credentials on students, paid for via its own predatory private student lending operation.

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.