Latest Work
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2025 Protect Borrowers Highlights Report
Check out our 2025 highlights!
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Fact Sheet: Los Angeles Borrowers Experience Economic Hardship Across Demographics Due to Impending Student Loan Default Crisis and Systemic Chaos
The fact sheet includes data showing how borrowers in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of California are experiencing economic hardship on the precipice of the impending student loan default crisis.
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Deep Dive: New Research Shows the Profound Impact of Debt on Perceptions of Higher Ed
For the first time, a novel set of research investigates the perspectives of student loan borrowers in various repayment plans on key issues, including (1) the value of their higher education experience, (2) the educational threshold for financial security, and (3) their trust in loan servicers and the federal government concerning loan repayment information.
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Latest Work
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2025 Protect Borrowers Highlights Report
Check out our 2025 highlights!
More
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Fact Sheet: Los Angeles Borrowers Experience Economic Hardship Across Demographics Due to Impending Student Loan Default Crisis and Systemic Chaos
The fact sheet includes data showing how borrowers in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of California are experiencing economic hardship on the precipice of the impending student loan default crisis.
More
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Deep Dive: New Research Shows the Profound Impact of Debt on Perceptions of Higher Ed
For the first time, a novel set of research investigates the perspectives of student loan borrowers in various repayment plans on key issues, including (1) the value of their higher education experience, (2) the educational threshold for financial security, and (3) their trust in loan servicers and the federal government concerning loan repayment information.
More
Latest Work
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2025 Protect Borrowers Highlights Report
Check out our 2025 highlights!
More
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Fact Sheet: Los Angeles Borrowers Experience Economic Hardship Across Demographics Due to Impending Student Loan Default Crisis and Systemic Chaos
The fact sheet includes data showing how borrowers in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of California are experiencing economic hardship on the precipice of the impending student loan default crisis.
More
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Deep Dive: New Research Shows the Profound Impact of Debt on Perceptions of Higher Ed
For the first time, a novel set of research investigates the perspectives of student loan borrowers in various repayment plans on key issues, including (1) the value of their higher education experience, (2) the educational threshold for financial security, and (3) their trust in loan servicers and the federal government concerning loan repayment information.
More
Latest Work
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2025 Protect Borrowers Highlights Report
Check out our 2025 highlights!
More
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Fact Sheet: Los Angeles Borrowers Experience Economic Hardship Across Demographics Due to Impending Student Loan Default Crisis and Systemic Chaos
The fact sheet includes data showing how borrowers in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of California are experiencing economic hardship on the precipice of the impending student loan default crisis.
More
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Deep Dive: New Research Shows the Profound Impact of Debt on Perceptions of Higher Ed
For the first time, a novel set of research investigates the perspectives of student loan borrowers in various repayment plans on key issues, including (1) the value of their higher education experience, (2) the educational threshold for financial security, and (3) their trust in loan servicers and the federal government concerning loan repayment information.
More
Latest Work
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Statewide Fact Sheets on the Impact of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
These fact sheets—created by SBPC, AFR, and CFA—shed light on the number of Americans in each state who have reached out to the CFPB for help and have benefitted from the CFPB’s work to hold companies accountable for abusive, predatory, and deceptive practices.
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Fact Sheet: The CFPB Protects Student Loan Borrowers and Holds Bad Actors Accountable
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), created in the devastating wake of the 2008 financial crisis, is an independent agency that enforces consumer protection laws and protects people from financial companies engaged in unfair, deceptive, and abusive practices. Since its creation, the CFPB has already obtained over $21 billion in relief for over 205 million people from companies that cheated and violated the law—including more than $5 billion in relief for Americans with…
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SBPC Letter Opposing the Nomination of Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education
If confirmed, Linda McMahon will lead with blind loyalty to President Trump and help usher in his radical Project 2025 agenda at the expense of the American people.
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Twitter/X Payments: Public Corruption Poses Risks for Consumers and Competition
This memo explores Elon Musk’s plan to pivot Twitter/X to a payments company in partnership with the payments giant Visa—and the stark conflict of interest posed by that plan and his position leading DOGE.
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Poll: Overwhelming, Bipartisan Majority Reject Cuts to the Student Loan Safety Net and Financial Aid Students and Families Rely On
Voters across party lines, age groups, gender, race, and educational status oppose efforts to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations on the backs of students and working families with student debt.
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Poll: Trump’s Plan to Abolish U.S. Department of Education is Extremely Unpopular Among Voters
Poll comes as Trump continues unconstitutional authoritarian takeover of federal agencies and prepares to take excecutive action to dismantle U.S. Department of Education.
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Student Debt Cancellation: Evidence from Credit Reporting Panel Data
This paper estimates the economic impact of student debt cancellation on borrower financial outcomes using a nationally-representative credit panel.
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2025 Statewide and Congressional District Fact Sheets on the Student Loan Debt Crisis
Download a fact sheet of student debt data for your state or congressional district!
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2024 SBPC Highlights Report
Check out our 2024 highlights!
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November Hardship NPRM Coalition Comment
November Hardship NPRM Coalition Comment
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