Domino: A Blog About Student Debt

Congress’s plan to dramatically shrink the federal student loan program will force students to seek expensive, high-risk private student loans—benefiting companies with troubling records of consumer abuses.

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.

Congressional Republicans want to make it harder for their own constituents to afford graduate education and compete in today’s job market.

Instead of investing in public education and making college more affordable for working families, the Republican tax bill will make it harder for families to make ends meet and push millions further into debt—all to pay for another round of tax cuts for billionaires.

As Trump and McMahon prepare to set their student debt collectors loose on American families, ED has yet to answer basic questions about how this will work, who will be required to pay, when payments are collected, and how much borrowers will owe. 

What Trump's CFPB has and hasn't done in the first two months of Russell Vought's control of the Bureau. Vought has so far illegally fired staff, halted the Bureau's critical work, and pardoned corporate lawmakers.

Prehired was an online tech sales bootcamp that was forced to shut down after luring students into scam “training” programs and saddling them with predatory student debt. Now, Prehired’s CEO and founder Joshua Jordan has relaunched his company, just under a new name—FastTrack.

The second Trump Admin has been filled with chaos and uncertainty for students and borrowers—but they can take critical steps to protect themselves and fight back.

House Republicans are moving forward with their plans to pass a budget that will allow them to deliver $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations by cutting education, lifesaving healthcare and food assistance, and other critical social programs that working families rely on.