Latest Work
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Preliminary Economic Analysis of Budget Reconciliation Proposal on Student Loan Repayment
Ahead of the House Education and Workforce Committee’s mark up, Republican leaders on the committee released their draft budget reconciliation bill. In response, SBPC sent a letter to the Committee Chairman Tim Walberg and Ranking Member Bobby Scott warning of the dire economic effects posed by this legislation.
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Predatory Tech Company Prehired Defies Government Order to Cease Operations and Continues Defrauding Students as “FastTrack”
SBPC released the results of a months-long investigation into the tech company Prehired, exposing how the firm had resumed its scheme to push worthless credentials on students, paid for via its own predatory private student lending operation.
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Latest Work
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Preliminary Economic Analysis of Budget Reconciliation Proposal on Student Loan Repayment
Ahead of the House Education and Workforce Committee’s mark up, Republican leaders on the committee released their draft budget reconciliation bill. In response, SBPC sent a letter to the Committee Chairman Tim Walberg and Ranking Member Bobby Scott warning of the dire economic effects posed by this legislation.
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Predatory Tech Company Prehired Defies Government Order to Cease Operations and Continues Defrauding Students as “FastTrack”
SBPC released the results of a months-long investigation into the tech company Prehired, exposing how the firm had resumed its scheme to push worthless credentials on students, paid for via its own predatory private student lending operation.
More
Latest Work
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Preliminary Economic Analysis of Budget Reconciliation Proposal on Student Loan Repayment
Ahead of the House Education and Workforce Committee’s mark up, Republican leaders on the committee released their draft budget reconciliation bill. In response, SBPC sent a letter to the Committee Chairman Tim Walberg and Ranking Member Bobby Scott warning of the dire economic effects posed by this legislation.
More
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Predatory Tech Company Prehired Defies Government Order to Cease Operations and Continues Defrauding Students as “FastTrack”
SBPC released the results of a months-long investigation into the tech company Prehired, exposing how the firm had resumed its scheme to push worthless credentials on students, paid for via its own predatory private student lending operation.
More
Latest Work
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Preliminary Economic Analysis of Budget Reconciliation Proposal on Student Loan Repayment
Ahead of the House Education and Workforce Committee’s mark up, Republican leaders on the committee released their draft budget reconciliation bill. In response, SBPC sent a letter to the Committee Chairman Tim Walberg and Ranking Member Bobby Scott warning of the dire economic effects posed by this legislation.
More
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Predatory Tech Company Prehired Defies Government Order to Cease Operations and Continues Defrauding Students as “FastTrack”
SBPC released the results of a months-long investigation into the tech company Prehired, exposing how the firm had resumed its scheme to push worthless credentials on students, paid for via its own predatory private student lending operation.
More
Latest Work
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Legal Analysis, and Need for Increased Enforcement, of the Student Loan Sunshine Act
In a memorandum, Sabita Soneji and Leora Friedman of Tycko & Zavareei, LLP outline the legal tools available to hold bad actors accountable for an ongoing scheme to drive students toward predatory private credit.
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Advocates Public Comment on Virginia Student Borrower Bill of Rights Implementation
In a public comment to the Virginia State Corporation Commission, SBPC and 12 organizations representing consumers, students, student loan borrowers, and teachers draw attention to industry attempts to circumvent the legislative process, and call on the regulator to faithfully implement the Commonwealth’s new consumer protections.
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Mapping Exploitation: Examining For-Profit Colleges as Financial Predators in Communities of Color
This report examines how predatory for-profit institutions are geographically targeting communities of color in cities in the Upper Midwest and across the country. By targeting prospective Black and Latino students with dubious educational programs and high levels of debt, the report shows how these institutions are systematically stripping wealth from these communities.
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Comments from the Student Borrower Protection Center to the Department of Education re: Intent to Establish Negotiated Rulemaking Committee
SBPC submitted a comment to ED outlining SBPC’s priorities to protect student loan borrowers and address the burden of student debt on families, communities, and the economy.
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Over 125 Advocacy Organizations Call on President Biden to Keep Student Loan Payments Shut Off
In a letter to President Biden, the SBPC and over 125 organizations representing millions of students, workers, people of color, veterans, people with disabilities, and people of faith, call on the Administration to extend the pause on student loan payments scheduled to resume for millions of borrowers on October 1, 2021.
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Pushing Predatory Products: How Public Universities are Partnering with Unaccountable Contractors to Drive Students Toward Risky Private Debt and Credit
This report is the result of an investigation revealing that public colleges and universities nationwide are driving students toward expensive, predatory student debt.
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Big Data and Big Errors: Why Giving Furnishers a Free Pass Undermines the Credit Reporting System and Denies Consumers Access to Justice
This report from the SBPC and Berger Montague attorney John Albanese examines how creditors, including student loan companies, routinely furnish inaccurate information to consumer reporting agencies like Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion.
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Campus Debit and Prepaid Cards and Best Financial Interest Standard
This issue brief, from the SPBC and the Consumer Financial Transactions Clinic at the University of North Carolina, School of Law, examines how the Department of Education can more fully implement rules already on the books to crack down on abuses in the market for school-sponsored prepaid cards and debit cards.
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Discrimination is Unfair: Interpreting UDA(A)P to Prohibit Discrimination
This report from the SBPC and Relman Colfax attorneys Stephen Hayes and Kali Schellenberg, examines how laws prohibiting unfair, deceptive (and sometimes abusive) acts and practices (“UDA(A)Ps”) can be applied to combat discrimination in the student loan market and beyond.
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