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Statewide Fact Sheets: Higher Ed & Student Debt
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.
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Bonni Snider’s Testimony at Senator Warren’s Spotlight Forum, “Stealing the American Dream: How Trump and Republicans Are Raising Education Costs for American Families”
See here to read Bonni Snider’s testimony from May 14, 2025.
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Bonnie Latreille’s Testimony at Senator Warren’s Spotlight Forum, “Stealing the American Dream: How Trump and Republicans Are Raising Education Costs for American Families”
See here to read Bonnie Latreille’s testimony from May 14, 2025.
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Latest Work
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Statewide Fact Sheets: Higher Ed & Student Debt
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.
More
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Bonni Snider’s Testimony at Senator Warren’s Spotlight Forum, “Stealing the American Dream: How Trump and Republicans Are Raising Education Costs for American Families”
See here to read Bonni Snider’s testimony from May 14, 2025.
More
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Bonnie Latreille’s Testimony at Senator Warren’s Spotlight Forum, “Stealing the American Dream: How Trump and Republicans Are Raising Education Costs for American Families”
See here to read Bonnie Latreille’s testimony from May 14, 2025.
More
Latest Work
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Statewide Fact Sheets: Higher Ed & Student Debt
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.
More
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Bonni Snider’s Testimony at Senator Warren’s Spotlight Forum, “Stealing the American Dream: How Trump and Republicans Are Raising Education Costs for American Families”
See here to read Bonni Snider’s testimony from May 14, 2025.
More
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Bonnie Latreille’s Testimony at Senator Warren’s Spotlight Forum, “Stealing the American Dream: How Trump and Republicans Are Raising Education Costs for American Families”
See here to read Bonnie Latreille’s testimony from May 14, 2025.
More
Latest Work
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Statewide Fact Sheets: Higher Ed & Student Debt
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.
More
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Bonni Snider’s Testimony at Senator Warren’s Spotlight Forum, “Stealing the American Dream: How Trump and Republicans Are Raising Education Costs for American Families”
See here to read Bonni Snider’s testimony from May 14, 2025.
More
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Bonnie Latreille’s Testimony at Senator Warren’s Spotlight Forum, “Stealing the American Dream: How Trump and Republicans Are Raising Education Costs for American Families”
See here to read Bonnie Latreille’s testimony from May 14, 2025.
More
Latest Work
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Coalition Comments on Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Third Party Authorization
Groups warn that, in light of the delayed implementation of the STOP Act third-party access system, Section D.3 risks blocking vulnerable borrowers from getting necessary legal assistance.
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PHEAA Borrower Voices on the Incomplete Promise of Relief through IDR
This memo details how borrowers such as those whose loans have been serviced by the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA), also known as AES and FedLoan Servicing, will still be left behind if fixes to Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) do not provide credit towards loan forgiveness for borrowers’ time in default, forbearance, and deferment.
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Poll: As Restart of Student Loan Payments Approaches, Vast Majority of Latino Voters Expect Major Shift in Families’ Financial Security
More than 6-in-10 Latino Voters Expect “Major Changes to Saving or Spending” if Payments Resume in Five Weeks; Supermajority of Latino Voters Support Action by President Biden to Extend Payment Pause, Cancel Student Debt
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Creditor Colleges: Canceling Debts that Surged During COVID-19 for Low-Income Students
According to this new report, when students owe debts to “Creditor Colleges,” the consequences can be catastrophic.
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Customer Disservice: Examining Maximus, The Federal Contractor That Just Became The Largest Student Loan Company In The World
This report details the Student Borrower Protection Center and Communications Workers of America’s joint investigation into Maximus, the world’s largest student debt company.
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Poll: Time for Action – Large Majority Backs Pause on Student Loan Payments
SBPC and Data for Progress released this tracking poll demonstrating widespread public support for federal action to protect people with student debt.
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Point of Fail: How a Flood of “Buy Now, Pay Later” Student Debt is Putting Millions at Risk
This report documents the results of an SBPC investigation finding that emerging point-of-sale lending firms, particularly those in the rapidly growing BNPL space, are driving students toward risky loan products and propping up a startling array of questionable for-profit schools in the process.
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Nelnet Borrower Voices on the Incomplete Promise of Relief through IDR
This memo describes how borrowers whose loans are serviced by Nelnet have suffered from the industry’s harmful practices, in particular when it comes to Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) options.
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Poll: New Poll: As Joe Biden Addresses the Nation, Voters of Color Overwhelmingly Support Action to Cancel Student Debt, Extend Pause on Student Loan Payments
This SBPC-Data for Progress poll reveals that more than 6-in-10 likely voters support extending President Biden’s pause on student loan payments, including 70 percent of Black likely voters and 76 percent of Latino and Latina likely voters.
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