Latest Work
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Testimony of Mike Pierce Before the U.S. Senate HELP Committee
See here to read Mike Pierce’s May 21, 2025, testimony.
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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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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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Testimony of Mike Pierce Before the U.S. Senate HELP Committee
See here to read Mike Pierce’s May 21, 2025, testimony.
More
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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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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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Testimony of Mike Pierce Before the U.S. Senate HELP Committee
See here to read Mike Pierce’s May 21, 2025, testimony.
More
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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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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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Testimony of Mike Pierce Before the U.S. Senate HELP Committee
See here to read Mike Pierce’s May 21, 2025, testimony.
More
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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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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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SBPC Investigation Reveals New Evidence of How the Student Loan Industry and the Department of Education Failed Borrowers During the Pandemic
The findings of this investigation include tens of thousands of never-before-seen instances in which federal student loan servicers inaccurately told credit reporting agencies that borrowers whose payments had been paused at the outset of COVID had stopped paying on their student loans.
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Private Student Loan Collections Report: New York Spotlight
In a report, the SBPC, Young Invincibles, Community Service Society of New York, and New Yorkers for Responsible Lending show how private student loan collection practices are harming borrowers across the country, including a spotlight on New York borrowers. With creditors dragging borrowers into court for debt they often do not owe and lacking the documents necessary to back up their claims, the report lays out how these companies are manipulating courts into…
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The Campaign for California Borrowers’ Rights Call on the CA Department of Financial Protection and Innovation to Create Strong Protections for Student Loan Borrowers
In a letter sent to the Commissioner Alvarez, the Campaign for California Borrowers’ Rights—a coalition of advocacy organizations committed to protecting student loan borrowers—calls on the newly created California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation to use its authorities to engage in diligent supervision, proactive enforcement, deliberate rulemaking, and smart data collection to protect California’s 3.8 million student loan borrowers.
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SBPC and the Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice at the UC Berkeley School of Law Call on the CFPB to Crack Down on Predatory For-Profit Schools
This issue brief, from the SPBC and the Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, examines how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has the authority to take action to crack down on predatory for-profit schools.
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Education Department’s Decades-Old Debt Trap: How the Mismanagement of Income Driven Repayment Locked Millions in Debt
This issue brief highlights newly public data obtained by NCLC from the Department of Education showing that only 32 borrowers have ever qualified for debt cancellation through the federal government’s IDR program, even as approximately 2 million borrowers remain trapped in decades-old debts.
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Student Borrower Advocates Call on Lawmakers to Confirm Rohit Chopra as Next CFPB Director
34 advocacy organizations call on Senate Banking Committee to swiftly confirm Chopra as next Director of the CFPB.
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SBPC and NCLC Demand Washington Stand Up for Millions of Student Loan Borrowers Struggling Without Relief During COVID
In a letter to Acting Secretary of Education Philip Rosenfelt, the SBPC and the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) urged immediate action to assist millions of student loan borrowers forgotten by Washington during COVID.
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