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Reaction to the ruling was predictably mixed along political fault lines. The Student Borrower Protection Center blasted Pittman as a “right-wing federal judge,” saying “tens of millions of student loan borrowers across the country now have their vital debt relief blocked as a result of this farcical and fabricated legal...

Student Borrower Protection Center Leadership Call on President Biden to extend the student loan payment pause until he is able to cancel student debt for 40 million Americans.

The Student Borrower Protection Center’s Michael Pierce, a deputy assistant director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under Obama, called on the Biden administration to “make it clear that the student loan system will remain shut off as long as these partisan legal challenges persist.” That would be one to...

Michael Pierce who served as a deputy assistant director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau during the Obama administration and is now at the Student Borrower Protection Center, has called for the administration to “make it clear that the student loan system will remain shut off as long as these...

There’s a good chance that, over the past couple of years, you’ve considered quitting your job. One thought that probably crossed your mind was whether you could afford it.

And as Student Borrower Protection Center deputy executive director and managing counsel Persis Yu pointed out to Teen Vogue in her October interview, the plaintiffs seem to be using the plan’s restrictions to make a counterintuitive argument. If the original suit claims that part of the plaintiffs’ “harm” is that the plan...

PERSIS YU: I like to think about this lawsuit as, like, the toddler problem. If I can't have it, you can't have it either. And that's not how the law works. And it's not how the courts should apply the law.

Student Borrower Protection Center calls on President Biden to extend payment pause and use all available legal tools to cancel student debt for 40 million Americans.

Reaction to the ruling was predictably mixed along political fault lines. The Student Borrower Protection Center blasted Pittman as a “right-wing federal judge,” saying “tens of millions of student loan borrowers across the country now have their vital debt relief blocked as a result of this farcical and fabricated legal...

“This was the moment that people in Washington started to take student debt seriously,” Pierce said. Chopra’s agenda-setting work in those days, he said, helped shape monumental changes in the student-loan market over the next decade–including the Biden administration’s announcement this summer on student debt cancellation.