Domino: A Blog About Student Debt

This Juneteenth, we continue the fight for economic justice and for Black Americans to have the full rights and privileges of the American Dream via access to the same basic educational opportunity, including a future without burdensome debt, that white families can often take as a given.

Buried in the Office of Federal Financial Management's 2,000-page 2023 Compliance Supplement are some of the strongest signals to date that the Biden Administration intends to hold predatory student finance companies accountable.

In April, the U.S. Department of Education announced the award of its Unified Servicing and Data Solutions (USDS) program; meet the companies it will pay to manage the economic futures of more than 43 million borrowers.

By Amy Czulada and Peter Perkowski | May 30, 2023 This week marks Memorial Day, and we honor the servicemembers who have made the ultimate sacrifice to protect and defend our country and its most deeply held principles. As we support all veterans and servicemembers, we cannot overlook the $2.9...

By Chris Hicks | May 19, 2023 Yesterday, shareholders of one of the largest student loan companies in the country gathered in Lincoln, Nebraska and reminded student loan borrowers: student debt is “good debt” if you’re the debt collector. Just ask Jeffrey Noordhoek, Nelnet’s CEO, who was paid more than...

SBPC has conducted a new analysis that proves the payment pause has significantly benefitted federal student loan borrowers, and the CRA resolutions challenging President Biden's debt relief would be disastrous if passed.

SBPC has conducted a new analysis that proves the payment pause has significantly benefitted federal student loan borrowers, and the CRA resolutions challenging President Biden's debt relief would be disastrous if passed.

SBPC has uncovered new evidence that GAs stole millions of dollars from borrowers and illicitly refused tens of millions of dollars of refunds after already getting caught breaking the law.

A report from Virginia's Secretary of Education points to a massive and growing institutional debt burden disproportionately harming many of the state's most historically marginalized students.

New research from the Student Loan Law Initiative shows that the payment pause was even more helpful and even better targeted than previously understood for California borrowers.