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“The borrowers most likely to struggle disproportionately come from lower-income households — the families least prepared to weather the public health and economic crises that gripped the country in 2020,” Mike Pierce, the executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center, said Friday on a call that the White House...

While the justices and attorneys debate these broad legal questions inside the court house, hundreds borrowers and advocates will be rallying outside. The idea behind the gathering, which a coalition of student loan advocacy organizations, civil rights groups, labor unions and others is hosting is to “keep bringing the story...

“This is an extraordinary nearly unprecedented outcome for lawsuits that were filed just a few months ago,” Mike Pierce, a former senior regulator, attorney, and executive director of Student Borrowers Protection Center (SBPC), said at the SDCC town hall. “We’ve skipped through every step of the normal judicial process —...

Proponents of the relief include two top labor unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers; a coalition of city and county governments nationwide; 21 Democratic-led states and Washington, DC; and liberal-leaning advocacy groups such as the Student Borrower Protection Center and NAACP.

“This is a lot of people, 40 million, and about half would be debt free as a result of this program,” said Persis Yu, managing counsel of the Student Borrower Protection Center, one of the groups hosting the protest. “The other thing that’s really important to recognize is that as...

Groups across the country wanting at least some student debt erased plan to rally on Tuesday in front of the Supreme Court building, including some from Georgia. The New Georgia Project Action Fund is mobilizing about 45 young borrowers of color for a bus trip from Atlanta to Washington, D.C.,...

On the day of the oral arguments on Feb. 28, more than 20 advocacy groups and several congressional Democrats are planning to rally outside the Supreme Court. Some of those groups include the NAACP, the Student Borrower Protection Center, American Federation of Teachers and New Georgia Project.

A “People’s Rally for Student Debt Cancellation” protest of the plan in front of the Court is scheduled for that day, and co-sponsors of the rally include the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), the Debt Collective, the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC), the NAACP, MoveOn, the National Consumer Law Center...

The FDIC's recent action against TAB Bank should mark the start of a broader effort weed out predatory student loan rent-a-bank partnerships.

The rally is planned for the day the Court will hear oral arguments in two cases challenging the Biden Administration’s student debt cancellation program. Legal experts from the Student Borrower Protection Center, National Consumer Law Center and Democracy Forward plan to attend the hearings.