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  • Reports
    Dec 4, 2023

    Stay-or-Pay: Federal Actions to End Modern-Day Indentured Servitude Across the Economy

    This new policy roadmap outlines a broad range of executive actions that agencies across the federal government must take to curb so-called “Stay-or-Pay” contracts.

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  • Reports
    Oct 5, 2023

    Delivering Distress: How Student Loan Companies Cheat Borrowers Out of Their Rights

    Read our Delivering Distress paper series tat lays out a new roadmap for action against unjust and unlawful collection efforts by the nation’s largest student loan companies. 

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  • Reports
    Jun 20, 2023

    Collection At All Costs: Unlocking Cancellation for Incarcerated Borrowers

    This report analyzes the results of the SBPC’s groundbreaking investigation into the federal student loan debt burden shouldered by incarcerated borrowers enrolled in Higher Education in Prison (HEP) programs.

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  • Reports
    Apr 13, 2023

    The South has Something to Say: Atlanta Report

    Read our report examining student loan debt in Atlanta.

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  • Reports
    Mar 20, 2023

    Selling Out Students: A Case Study in Brand-Name Schools Partnering with For-Profit Scammers to Make a Buck

    This report exposes a scheme by the failed for-profit coding bootcamp Make School, Inc. and the private non-profit college Dominican University to drive hundreds of largely low-income students to each take on thousands of dollars of predatory private student loans and, for some, federal student loans.

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  • Reports
    Dec 22, 2022

    2022 SBPC Highlights Report

    Check out our 2022 highlights!

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  • Reports
    Dec 15, 2022

    Collections Catastrophe: New Evidence Exposes Fundamental Failures of the Government’s Student Loan Collection Machine

    This report reveals that ED may be powerless to implement protections for defaulted borrowers as required by law, and that it struggled to end illegal garnishments during COVID for far longer and in much more profound ways than previously known.

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  • Reports
    Nov 22, 2022

    Jubilee and Jubilation: An Examination of the Relationship between Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Measures of Well-Being

    Using a novel survey of hundreds of student loan borrowers across the country, this research provides a first-of-its-kind look at how nearing and arriving at PSLF has positive spillover effects across nearly every area of borrowers’ lives, including improving a wide range of financial, psychological, and behavioral measures.

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  • Reports
    Aug 2, 2022

    Beyond Fresh Start: Addressing the Flaws of the Current Student Loan Collection System

    The Student Borrower Protection Center’s paper series on the flaws of the current system of student loan default and collections in the U.S.

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  • Investigations Reports
    Jul 28, 2022

    Trapped at Work: How Big Business Uses Student Debt to Restrict Worker Mobility

    The investigation reveals that “Training Repayment Agreement Provisions” (TRAPs) have become more prominent in use by major employers as a tool to trap people in poor working environments and low-paying jobs.

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