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  • Press Releases
    Jan 31, 2024

    U.S. Department of Education to Reconvene Negotiators to Deliver Student Debt Relief

    After advocates, lawmakers and members of federal rulemaking panel urge Department of Education to hold a fourth negotiated rulemaking session to properly address student loan hardship.

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  • News Clips
    Jan 23, 2024

    Employers’ Use of TRAPs to Avoid Noncompete Scrutiny Prompts Regulatory and Legislative Action

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    Jan 19, 2024

    70 organizations, NAACP included, ask Biden’s Education Dept. to retool student debt plan to help people of color

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  • Press Releases
    Jan 18, 2024

    60+ Organizations Urge the Department of Education to Finish the Job and Deliver on President Biden’s Promise to Cancel Student Debt

    Civil rights, labor, and borrower advocacy groups representing millions urge the Education Department to hold a fourth negotiated rulemaking session to properly establish a rule to support borrowers experiencing hardship.

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  • Letters & Memos
    Jan 18, 2024

    60+ Organizations Urge the Department of Education to Finish the Job and Deliver on President Biden’s Promise to Cancel Student Debt

    Civil rights, labor, and borrower advocacy groups representing millions urge the Education Department to hold a fourth negotiated rulemaking session to properly establish a rule to support borrowers experiencing hardship.

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  • Blogs
    Jan 18, 2024

    President Biden’s Student Debt Relief “Plan B” Must Not Leave Millions of Borrowers in Hardship Behind

    Researchers offer path for the Biden Administration to address hardship posed by student debt.

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  • News Clips
    Jan 7, 2024

    Environmental Justice in NM & Student Debt Crisis!

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  • News Clips
    Jan 5, 2024

    Aidvantage added to student loan chaos with late bills, feds say. Now it faces a big fine.

    Mike Pierce, the executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center, lauded the Biden administration’s move Friday as an important accountability measure, but said it still didn’t go far enough.

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  • News Clips
    Dec 29, 2023

    Delayed statements, incorrect bills: What student loan borrowers need to know about servicing problems

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  • News Clips
    Dec 28, 2023

    Federal student loan payments have restarted. More than a third of borrowers missed the first one.

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  • News Clips
    Dec 27, 2023

    It’s a ‘massive student debt strike’ activist says, as millions of borrowers still aren’t making payments

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  • Reports
    Dec 21, 2023

    2023 SBPC Highlights Report

    Check out our 2023 highlights!

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    Dec 13, 2023

    House committee advances Pell Grant expansion

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    Dec 13, 2023

    Student loan debt statistics

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  • Press Releases
    Dec 12, 2023

    Advocates Sound Alarm on Workforce Pell Act, Urge Congress to Reject Bail Out for Sham For-Profit and Online Training Companies That Target Vulnerable Workers

    SBPC urges lawmakers to dismiss the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act, H.R. 6585, that would deliver industry bailouts while leaving vulnerable students to pay the price.

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  • Amicus Briefs
    Dec 12, 2023

    Amici Curiae: Qualified Public Service Employers In Support of IDR Account Adjustment

    Brief argues that plaintiffs suing over IDR Account Adjustment have no standing.

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  • News Clips
    Dec 8, 2023

    Cancel student loan debt for those with income under $71K, researchers to tell Biden panel

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  • News Clips
    Dec 7, 2023

    Borrowers face billing errors in a rocky return to US student loan payments

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  • News Clips
    Dec 6, 2023

    Federal Agencies Can Disable Employer Debt TRAPs

    Other advocates involved in the campaign besides GFI include the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC), the American Economic Liberties Project (AELP), and the nonprofit law firm Towards Justice, which has represented workers in stay-or-pay cases. The memos name 16 other supporting groups, many of which sent representatives this week to a conference on stay-or-pay contracts in Irvine, California.

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  • Press Releases
    Dec 4, 2023

    Experts Release Major Policy Roadmap and Gather at Convening with Enforcement Officials to Examine Risks Posed by TRAPs and Other Employer-Driven Debt

    Compendium of memos outlines broad range of executive actions that federal agencies must take to curb harmful “Stay-or-Pay” employment contracts.

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