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  • Mar 21, 2023

    How corporations are trapping employees – what we can do to stop them | Opinion

    Opinion piece by By State Reps. Tarik Khan, Sara Innamorato, Donna Bullock and Roni Green.

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  • News Clips
    Mar 21, 2023

    When universities slap their names on for-profit coding boot camps

    “What you have is trusted brand-name schools, from community colleges to state universities, knowing that they have these valuable brands, and literally renting them out to for-profit companies.”—Ben Kaufman, director of research and investigations at the Student Borrower Protection Center

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  • Press Releases
    Mar 20, 2023

    New Investigation Exposes Years-Long Scheme by Private College and Failed Coding Bootcamp to Dupe Regulators and Push Predatory Loans on Low-Income Students

    The SBPC released a new report exposing a back-room deal between the failed for-profit coding bootcamp Make School and the nonprofit college Dominican University that aimed to mislead accreditors, state regulators, and prospective students while getting Make School access to federal student aid dollars.

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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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  • News Clips
    Mar 16, 2023

    Student-loan companies illegally collecting on debt discharged in bankruptcy, consumer watchdog says

    “The CFPB has said very clearly now these loans are not collectable,” said Mike Pierce the executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center, an advocacy group that’s looked closely at this issue. “You can not collect on them, if you do, you are breaking the law.”

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  • Press Releases
    Mar 16, 2023

    CFPB Moves to Quash Decades-Long Industry Scheme to Rob Borrowers of Bankruptcy Rights

    CFPB releases bulletin demanding student loan servicers halt and return unlawful debt collection on loans discharged through bankruptcy.

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  • Letters & Memos
    Mar 16, 2023

    Letter to the Department of Education Regarding the Incentive Compensation Ban and Bundled Services

    In a letter, SBPC outlines the various failures and harms that stem from ED’s “bundled services” loophole, and calls for its immediate recission.

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  • Blogs
    Mar 9, 2023

    Virginia’s Leading Work to Expose Institutional Debts Reveals Massive, Disparately Distributed Burdens

    A report from Virginia’s Secretary of Education points to a massive and growing institutional debt burden disproportionately harming many of the state’s most historically marginalized students.

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  • News Clips
    Mar 7, 2023

    Is The Student Loan Pause Now In Jeopardy? New Legal Challenge Seeks To Stop It

    Leading advocacy organizations for student loan borrowers had harsh words for SoFi. Criticizing SoFi’s CEO as “a financial vulture gorging himself on our bloated and broken student loan system,” Student Borrower Protection Center’s Executive Director Mike Pierce said in a statement that, “The real story here is the huge risk this poses to tens of […]

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  • News Clips
    Mar 7, 2023

    SoFi Bank sues to block Biden’s student loan payment pause

    Ella Azoulay [Research & Policy Analyst, Student Borrower Protection Center], a 26-year-old who lives in Washington, visited the rally to join the push for debt relief, which she calls a “family issue.” A 2018 graduate of New York University, Azoulay has $40,000 in student debt, while her dad has more than $400,000 taken out on behalf of her and her two siblings. “I can’t really think about my future without thinking about this…

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  • Press Releases
    Mar 6, 2023

    Failing Private Student Lender Sues Biden Administration to Force Student Loan Bills for Tens of Millions

    Amici curiae to nation’s highest court: student debt relief is lawful and urgently needed to address the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Blogs
    Mar 6, 2023

    New Research Underscores How Federal Action Protected Student Loan Borrowers During COVID—and What’s at Stake as the Supreme Court Considers Cancellation

    New research from the Student Loan Law Initiative shows that the payment pause was even more helpful and even better targeted than previously understood for California borrowers.

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  • News Clips
    Mar 6, 2023

    ‘Financial Vulture’ SoFi Sues to Block Biden’s Student Loan Repayment Pause

    Founded in 2011, SoFi “was once the leader of a booming private student loan refinancing industry,” according to to the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC), a nonprofit advocacy group. SoFi’s stock price has plummeted by more than 70% since its peak. “SoFi CEO Anthony Noto is a financial vulture gorging himself on our bloated and […]

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  • News Clips
    Mar 6, 2023

    SoFi sues Cardona, Education Dept. to end student loan payment pause

    “The real story here is the huge risk this [lawsuit] poses to tens of millions of working people who SoFi would never lend to — families across the country that depend on the student loan payment pause to shield them from financial devastation,” said Mike Pierce, executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center.

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  • News Clips
    Mar 6, 2023

    A major student-loan lender is putting millions of borrowers ‘at serious risk of financial harm’ by filing a lawsuit to end the payment pause, Biden’s Education Department says

    “SoFi CEO Anthony Noto is a financial vulture gorging himself on our bloated and broken student loan system,” advocacy group Student Borrower Protection Center’s Executive Director Mike Pierce said in a statement. “Noto’s failing company thinks it is entitled to engorge itself by skimming the cream off of the federal student loan portfolio and—after a […]

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  • News Clips
    Mar 3, 2023

    DEBATE: Will SCOTUS OVERRULE Student Debt Cancellation?

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  • News Clips
    Mar 2, 2023

    As court debates student loans, borrowers see disconnect

    Ella Azoulay [Research & Policy Analyst, Student Borrower Protection Center], a 26-year-old who lives in Washington, visited the rally to join the push for debt relief, which she calls a “family issue.” A 2018 graduate of New York University, Azoulay has $40,000 in student debt, while her dad has more than $400,000 taken out on behalf of her and her two siblings. “I can’t really think about my future without thinking about this…

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  • News Clips
    Mar 1, 2023

    Supreme Court student loan hearing: What you need to know

    Yes, but some advocates encourage borrowers to wait for now, since there’s no financial penalty during the pause on payments and interest accrual. That said, Katherine Welbeck of the Student Borrower Protection Center recommends logging on to your account and making sure you know the name of your servicer, your due date and whether you’re enrolled in the best income-driven repayment plan.

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  • News Clips
    Mar 1, 2023

    “I Am Fired Up”: Sanders, Warren Join Rally for Student Debt Cancellation

    Joining over 500 students, debtors and advocates in a rally organized by the Student Borrower Protection Center, the lawmakers said that Biden has the legal authority to cancel student debt and that the court case boils down to partisan posturing in a concerted effort by conservative elites to suppress the working class.

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  • News Clips
    Feb 28, 2023

    ‘We just keep getting hit’: Borrowers rally over Supreme Court case on student loan debt relief

    Amy Czulada [Outreach & Advocacy Manager, Student Borrower Protection Center] is in her mid-30s and still has more than $100,000 in debt for her undergraduate and master’s degrees. “I certainly don’t regret getting an education, but it has inhibited me from doing things,” Czulada said. “You’re always making hard choices – ‘Do I pay off my student debt or get a prescription or go to dinner?’ Things that are kind of taken for…

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