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  • Blogs
    Oct 4, 2021

    For Servicemembers Pursuing Public Service Loan Forgiveness, the Fight Continues

    Yesterday, a group of brave active duty servicemembers was featured sharing their firsthand accounts of student loan challenges with CBS News’ “60 Minutes” show.

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  • News Clips
    Oct 3, 2021

    Military members promised student debt relief in exchange for ten years of public service say promise is often broken

    Seth Frotman heads an advocacy group called the Student Borrower Protection Center. He says borrowers should have started getting relief through the forgiveness program four years ago – a decade after it started – but over 9 out of 10 military members who have applied for debt relief have been turned down.

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  • Reports
    Sep 27, 2021

    Driving Inequity: Are IDR’s Documentation Requirements Hurting Borrowers of Color?

    This report examines the role that the use of alternative documentation of income plays in driving racial disparities in access to Income-Driven Repayment for student loan borrowers.

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  • Blogs
    Sep 27, 2021

    Policy Choices are Driving Racial Disparities in Access to Income-Driven Repayment

    A new SBPC report sounds a warning that failures in the design of the IDR application process may exacerbate the unevenness of pandemic recovery along racial lines.

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  • Press Releases
    Sep 22, 2021

    Advocates Call on President Biden to Cancel Student Loan Debt for Public Service Workers

    More than 200 organizations representing millions of public service workers from all corners of the country called on President Biden to fix the broken PSLF program and deliver promised student debt relief to borrowers.

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  • Blogs
    Sep 20, 2021

    PSLF Borrower Voices: Spotlighting Servicemembers Denied Earned Loan Forgiveness

    Servicemembers across the country are continually being denied promised student loan relief through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program even after a decade or more of service in uniform. This fact is a national disgrace.

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  • Reports
    Aug 24, 2021

    Co-Opting California Courts: How Private Creditors Have Turned the Judiciary Into a Predatory Student Debt Collection Machine

    In a report, SBPC fellow Claire Johnson Raba, a SBPC fellow shows the effect of predatory private student loan collection practices on borrowers in California. With creditors dragging borrowers into court for debts they often do not owe and lacking the documents necessary to back up their claims, the report lays out the harmful long-term impacts to borrowers’ credit and finances.

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  • Press Releases
    Jul 28, 2021

    New Report Finds For-Profit Schools Targeting Black and Latino Communities

    . The report plots the location of for-profit schools in cities across the Midwest, showing how these institutions often cluster in certain areas to exploit borrowers of color by offering programs of dubious value financed by expensive and hard to repay student debt. Further, new data analysis reveals that, at the national level, for-profit schools are roughly twice as likely to set up in majority Latino or majority Black zip codes as compared…

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  • Reports
    Jul 28, 2021

    Mapping Exploitation: Examining For-Profit Colleges as Financial Predators in Communities of Color

    This report examines how predatory for-profit institutions are geographically targeting communities of color in cities in the Upper Midwest and across the country. By targeting prospective Black and Latino students with dubious educational programs and high levels of debt, the report shows how these institutions are systematically stripping wealth from these communities.

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  • Blogs
    Jul 8, 2021

    New Data Show Alarming Racial Disparities for Student Loan Debt Collections

    Our analysis of new data uncovers stark racial disparities at the local level in student debt distress.

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