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...response to SBPC’s report: https://www.upstart.com/news/upstarts-commitment-to-fair-lending U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs report on the use of educational data to make credit determinations: https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Review%20-%20Use%20of%20Educational%20Data.pdf Upstart’s response to the...

...include a brief statement on the application’s educational and research background, the main focus areas and research questions they hope to answer through this opportunity, and how this research connects...

...with the company. Absolutely a predatory company. Source, emphasis added At the start of COVID I started to search for a work-at-home option in a different field. That night I...

New Navient Investigations Shed Light on How Courts Continue to Reject DeVos’s Efforts to Shield Student Loan Companies By Tamara Cesaretti | November 22, 2019 Student debt has more than...

...allegations prominently featured in today’s complaint. For example: Relying on Deceptive Marketing. The National Consumer Law Center and the SPBC filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission alleging Vemo...

...borrowers in majority-Latino/a communities in California. Mapping Exploitation: Examining For-Profits as Financial Predators in Communities of Color This report examines how predatory for-profit institutions are geographically targeting communities of color...

...for relative comparison of rates of student loan distress in majority-white communities and communities of color. In particular, our analysis indicates that there are 143 counties where the share of...

...be held by private creditors.[1] These borrowers are collectively referred to as “commercial FFELP” borrowers. Commercial FFELP borrowers’ combined student loan balance is larger than the entire private student loan...

...higher education, with many of the largest and fastest-growing student loan balances found in majority-Black communities. In Washington, D.C., for example, six of the eight neighborhoods where student debt is...

...purportedly “comprehensive” list of approved and denied employers. Documents obtained through the investigation, including a new database of employers approved and rejected for PSLF, are available at: https://protectborrowers.org/the-internal-government-communications-and-records-exposing-the-broken-employer-certification-process/ Background The...