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Ben Kaufman |

President Biden Opened the Door to Comprehensive Student Protection. Now, He Needs to Step Through It.

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.

Biden’s student loan help would be ‘annihilated’ by GOP bill

New Georgia Project, SBPC talk Black student debt

They recruited IT staffers with the promise of a prestigious career. But there’s a catch — workers had to stay for two years or pay nearly $24,000

House Majority Proposes a “Permanent Student Debt Crisis,” Driving Borrowers Far Deeper Into Debt and Stripping Relief from Tens of Millions of Workers and Families

Fake outrage over the debt limit spurred House leadership to release a cruel, unjust, and irresponsible vision for how Americans pay for college, blocking all future Administrations from cancelling debt or fixing broken programs.

“Unconscionable” Debt-for-Training Scheme Funnels Low-Wage Tech Workers to Fortune 500 Companies; Groundbreaking Class-Action Lawsuit Seeks to Void Predatory Training Repayment Agreement Provisions

Tech Training Bootcamp Smoothstack Engineered Modern-Day Indentured Servitude, Using TRAPs to Let Public Companies Like Accenture, Verizon, and CapitalOne Exploit IT Workers April 14, 2023 | WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last night, a former employee filed a class-action lawsuit against a tech-training and employee-staffing agency, Smoothstack, Inc. (Smoothstack). This new lawsuit...

New Research Finds Majority-Black Neighborhoods in the Center of Atlanta’s Growing Student Debt Crisis

As Millions Await Decisions on Political Lawsuits and Efforts in Congress Threatening the Fate of Debt Relief, Student Borrower Protection Center Launches “Student Debt in the South” Research Series April 13, 2023 | WASHINGTON, D.C. — Student Borrower Protection Center published new research today offering the first in-depth look at...

California bill aims to help students with institutional debt

Assemblymember Blanca Pacheco introduced a bill that would prohibit California schools from withholding degrees or certificates from students if they owe money. “With the current enrollment crisis, it is important that we help students with removing barriers in attaining their higher education goals and understand what else we must do to address...

CALIFORNIA: Assemblymember Pacheco Joins Coalition to Unveil the “Protecting Students from Creditor Colleges Act” on Institutional Debt

State bill is aimed at protecting students from so-called “institutional debt,” or the educational barriers and harmful debt collection practices related to debts students owe directly to schools.

Ella Azoulay |

New Analysis Confirms Congressional Efforts to Overturn Payment Pause and Debt Relief Will Wreak Economic Havoc on Tens of Millions of Borrowers

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.

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