Marginalized Populations

Read more about specific populations or see below for a combined feed:

Older Borrowers

Latino/a borrowers

Black Borrowers

LGBTQ+ Borrowers

Veteran Borrowers

Incarcerated Borrowers

Blogs

Jun 18, 2019

Betsy DeVos Wants to Give a Free Pass to the Student Loan Company That Ripped Off 78,000 Servicemembers

By Austin Evers and Seth Frotman | June 18, 2019 Last week, the U.S. Department of Education’s student lending arm, the Office of Federal Student Aid, radically changed the landscape of its planned billion-dollar contract to reshape student loan servicing in a move that tips the scales for Navient, one of the nation’s largest student […]

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Blogs

Feb 1, 2019

The Predatory Underworld of Companies that Target Veterans for a Buck

By Tariq Habash and Mike Saunders | February 1, 2019 The recent law enforcement crackdown on for-profit colleges is well documented. These schools mislead students by promising a fast track to a brighter future and then loaded students up with mountains of debt for worthless degrees—a form of consumer fraud that stretches back for decades. But […]

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News Clips

Jan 27, 2019

Women, older adults facing student loan debt in record numbers

The number of people ages 60 and above with college debt in New York has risen 44 percent between 2012 and 2017.

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Blogs

Dec 13, 2018

Why is the Department of Education Dragging its Feet on Debt Relief for Disabled Veterans?

Hundreds of thousands of student borrowers, including 42,000 veterans, qualify to have their student loans cancelled because of a total and permanent disability (TPD). Yet few eligible borrowers take advantage of this benefit, in part because they have to actually ask for it. The Department of Education (ED) knows who these disabled borrowers are and could automatically discharge their loans today, but it has refused to do so even in the face of…

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