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  • Reports
    Jun 29, 2020

    Disparate Debts: How Student Loans Drive Racial Inequality Across Cities

    This report examines alarming racial disparities in student debt burdens and borrower distress across American cities.

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  • Press Releases
    Jun 29, 2020

    New Report Finds Severe Racial Disparities for Student Loan Borrowers Across American Cities

    Alarming racial disparities in student debt burden and borrower distress exist across American cities, according to a new report issued today by the Student Borrower Protection Center.

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  • Press Releases
    May 1, 2020

    Advocates and Veterans Groups Urge Financial Institutions to Follow Military Consumer Protection Law During COVID-19 Mobilizations

    Groups send letters to the nation’s major financial institutions urging them to ensure that service members—including those called up to support COVID-19 emergency response efforts—are not being mistreated or denied their rights under federal law.

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  • Letters & Memos
    May 1, 2020

    SBPC, Military, and Veterans Groups Demand Industry Leaders Uphold SCRA Protections for Military Consumers

    Groups send 21 letters to financial industry leaders reminding them of their obligations under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.

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  • Blogs
    Mar 4, 2020

    Maryland Stands Up to Predatory Student Loan Lawsuit Machine Targeting Borrowers of Color

    This morning, we released new analysis showing how these private student loan collection practices are harming borrowers across the country—and hitting borrowers in Maryland particularly hard. Creditors are dragging Maryland borrowers into court for debt they often do not owe. Lacking the documents necessary to back up their claims, these companies are manipulating courts into garnishing borrowers’ wages for illegitimate debt.

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  • News Clips
    Feb 6, 2020

    Graduates Of Historically Black Colleges May Be Paying More For Loans: Watchdog Group

    “It really raised some alarm flags,” said Kat Welbeck, the civil rights counsel at the nonprofit Student Borrower Protection Center.

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  • Reports
    Feb 5, 2020

    Educational Redlining

    The SBPC’s analysis of fintech and banking products uncovered cases where a prospective borrower may be hit with thousands of dollars in additional credit costs if he or she attended a community college, an Historically Black College or University (HBCU), or an Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI).

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  • Press Releases
    Feb 5, 2020

    New Report Finds ‘Educational Redlining’ Penalizes Borrowers Who Attended Community Colleges and Minority-Serving Institutions, Perpetuates Systemic Disparities

    Advocacy organization calls on congress, regulators to crack down on consumer lenders’ use of education data, warns of fair lending abuses.

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  • News Clips
    Jan 15, 2020

    Seniors crushed by student debt push for Virginia Bill of Rights

    Virginia lawmakers are being pressed to pass a proposed student-loan borrower “Bill of Rights” by a group most wouldn’t think of with school debt — Virginians age 50 or older.

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  • Blogs
    Jan 8, 2020

    Communities of Color in Crisis: Examining Racial Disparities in Student Loan Debt and Borrower Outcomes

    As reports of widespread servicing breakdowns leading to significant borrower harm continue to emerge, it is critical that we examine the disparity in loan performance between borrowers of color in comparison to their white peers, the role of student loan servicers in exacerbating these outcomes, and the federal inaction that allows potential discrimination by student loan companies to go unchecked.

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