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  • Press Releases
    Mar 27, 2024

    LDF, SBPC, and Upstart Announce Final Monitorship Report on AI and Fair Lending

    Independent monitor ends oversight of Upstart network amid impasse and offers guidance for fair lending oversight in financial services; parties warn of risk of AI-driven bias in consumer lending.

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  • Blogs
    Feb 27, 2024

    Congress’s Most Recent Effort to Further Expand Short-Term Pell Hurts Vulnerable Students, Jeopardizes PSLF and Other Biden Efforts to Support Struggling Student Loan Borrowers

    The Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act will undercut Public Service Loan Forgiveness and the Biden Administration’s new SAVE Plan.

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  • Blogs
    Jun 22, 2023

    On Juneteenth, Student Debt Cancellation is Part of the Unfinished Promise of Emancipation

    This Juneteenth, we continue the fight for economic justice and for Black Americans to have the full rights and privileges of the American Dream via access to the same basic educational opportunity, including a future without burdensome debt, that white families can often take as a given.

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  • Press Releases
    May 8, 2023

    Unprecedented Coalition of 260+ Labor, Civil Rights, and Advocacy Organizations Call on Congress to Reject Partisan Scheme to Reverse Student Loan Payment Pause, Block Debt Relief for Student Loan Borrowers

    Groups from all 50 states warn lawmakers that abuse of the Congressional Review Act will wreak economic havoc on tens of millions.

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  • News Clips
    Apr 23, 2023

    New Georgia Project, SBPC talk Black student debt

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  • Reports
    Apr 13, 2023

    The South has Something to Say: Atlanta Report

    Read our report examining student loan debt in Atlanta.

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  • Press Releases
    Apr 13, 2023

    New Research Finds Majority-Black Neighborhoods in the Center of Atlanta’s Growing Student Debt Crisis

    As millions await decisions on political lawsuits and efforts in Congress threatening the fate of debt relief, Student Borrower Protection Center launches “Student Debt in the South” research series.

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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
    Feb 24, 2023

    Black student loan borrowers at risk as U.S. Supreme Court weighs forgiveness plan

    On the day of the oral arguments on Feb. 28, more than 20 advocacy groups and several congressional Democrats are planning to rally outside the Supreme Court. Some of those groups include the NAACP, the Student Borrower Protection Center, American Federation of Teachers and New Georgia Project.

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  • News Clips
    Feb 7, 2023

    Way Too Much Student Loan Debt? Education Scams Could Be The Reason

    Research from the Student Borrower Protection center found that for-profit schools (often hotbeds of education scams) are twice as likely to set up in majority Black and Latino communities.

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