Latest Work
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Student Debt Delinquency Crisis Brief and Statewide Fact Sheets
The following brief and fact sheets analyze the student debt delinquency crisis and its impacts on millions of students and borrowers in each state across the country.
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Broken Promises Memo
Since Trump took office, American families have been struggling and more are being pushed into debt just to make ends meet. This memo sheds light on the broken promises President Trump and his Administration have made to address the affordability crisis and the reality that American families have had to endure over the last year. Trump’s policies have fanned the flames of the affordability crisis, pushed costs even higher, and driven millions of…
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Fight for Affordability Memo and Survey Findings
Protect Borrowers partnered with the AFT to unveil the findings of a survey of more than 7,500 AFT union members, revealing the dire financial situations working families face under President Trump’s failed economic policies.
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Latest Work
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Student Debt Delinquency Crisis Brief and Statewide Fact Sheets
The following brief and fact sheets analyze the student debt delinquency crisis and its impacts on millions of students and borrowers in each state across the country.
More
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Broken Promises Memo
Since Trump took office, American families have been struggling and more are being pushed into debt just to make ends meet. This memo sheds light on the broken promises President Trump and his Administration have made to address the affordability crisis and the reality that American families have had to endure over the last year. Trump’s policies have fanned the flames of the affordability crisis, pushed costs even higher, and driven millions of…
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Fight for Affordability Memo and Survey Findings
Protect Borrowers partnered with the AFT to unveil the findings of a survey of more than 7,500 AFT union members, revealing the dire financial situations working families face under President Trump’s failed economic policies.
More
Latest Work
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Student Debt Delinquency Crisis Brief and Statewide Fact Sheets
The following brief and fact sheets analyze the student debt delinquency crisis and its impacts on millions of students and borrowers in each state across the country.
More
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Broken Promises Memo
Since Trump took office, American families have been struggling and more are being pushed into debt just to make ends meet. This memo sheds light on the broken promises President Trump and his Administration have made to address the affordability crisis and the reality that American families have had to endure over the last year. Trump’s policies have fanned the flames of the affordability crisis, pushed costs even higher, and driven millions of…
More
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Fight for Affordability Memo and Survey Findings
Protect Borrowers partnered with the AFT to unveil the findings of a survey of more than 7,500 AFT union members, revealing the dire financial situations working families face under President Trump’s failed economic policies.
More
Latest Work
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Student Debt Delinquency Crisis Brief and Statewide Fact Sheets
The following brief and fact sheets analyze the student debt delinquency crisis and its impacts on millions of students and borrowers in each state across the country.
More
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Broken Promises Memo
Since Trump took office, American families have been struggling and more are being pushed into debt just to make ends meet. This memo sheds light on the broken promises President Trump and his Administration have made to address the affordability crisis and the reality that American families have had to endure over the last year. Trump’s policies have fanned the flames of the affordability crisis, pushed costs even higher, and driven millions of…
More
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Fight for Affordability Memo and Survey Findings
Protect Borrowers partnered with the AFT to unveil the findings of a survey of more than 7,500 AFT union members, revealing the dire financial situations working families face under President Trump’s failed economic policies.
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.
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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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Tiffany Aliche’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 Tiffany Aliche’s May 14, 2025 testimony.
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Fact Sheet: Student Debt Default Crisis By the Numbers
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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AFT and SBPC Letters to OIGs on Probe Corruption
AFT and SBPC urge the Inspectors General for the ED and the CFPB to probe these agencies’ handling of their shared oversight responsibility over the $1.6 trillion federal student loan market.
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Deep Dive: House Reconciliation Bill Makes Paying for College More Expensive and Risky for Students and Working Families
This SBPC Deep Dive is a preliminary economic analysis of the House Education & Workforce Committee’s legislation on student loan repayment.
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Tasha Berkhalter’s Testimony at Senator Murray’s Spotlight Forum, “Abandoning America’s Promise: The Real Cost of Dismantling the Department of Education”
See here to read Tasha Berkhalter’s testimony from May 6, 2025.
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Coalition Comment Letter to U.S. Department of Education in Response to Intent to Establish Negotiated Rulemaking
186 organizations representing millions crushed under the weight of student loan debt submitted a comment in response to ED’s notice of its intent to establish negotiated rulemaking aimed at overhauling the rules that protect people from unaffordable student loan debt.
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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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