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  • Fact Sheets
    Dec 8, 2025

    Fact Sheet: Los Angeles Borrowers Experience Economic Hardship Across Demographics Due to Impending Student Loan Default Crisis and Systemic Chaos

    The fact sheet includes data showing how borrowers in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of California are experiencing economic hardship on the precipice of the impending student loan default crisis.

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  • Fact Sheets
    Nov 14, 2025

    Fact Sheet: Austin Borrowers and Families Experiencing Economic Hardship Due to Impending Student Loan Default Crisis and Systemic Chaos Across Demographics

    The fact sheet includes data showing how borrowers in the Austin metropolitan area of Texas are experiencing economic hardship on the precipice of the impending student loan default crisis, and that women, older borrowers, and borrowers in majority-Latino neighborhoods are disproportionately burdened by student debt.

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  • Fact Sheets
    Nov 11, 2025

    Fact Sheet: Twin Cities Borrowers and Families Experiencing Economic Hardship Due to Impending Student Loan Default Crisis and Systemic Chaos Across Demographics

    The fact sheet includes data showing how borrowers in the Louisville metropolitan area are experiencing severe delinquency on the precipice of the impending student loan default crisis, and that women, older borrowers, and borrowers in majority-Black neighborhoods are disproportionately burdened by student debt.

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  • Fact Sheets
    Nov 5, 2025

    Fact Sheet: Louisville, KY Borrowers and Families Experiencing Economic Hardship Due to Impending Student Loan Default Crisis and Systemic Chaos Across Demographics

    The fact sheet includes data showing how borrowers in the Louisville metropolitan area are experiencing severe delinquency on the precipice of the impending student loan default crisis, and that women, older borrowers, and borrowers in majority-Black neighborhoods are disproportionately burdened by student debt.

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  • Press Releases
    May 9, 2025

    42 Legal Services Groups, Veterans Rights Organizations, and Consumer Watchdogs Tell Federal Court of Appeals: The Administration Must be Stopped From Illegally Dismantling the CFPB

    Amicus brief: the destruction of the CFPB would inflict immeasurable harm to financially vulnerable Americans and the broader U.S. economy.

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  • Blogs
    Apr 29, 2025

    Voices Behind the Student Debt Crisis

    Read quotes from borrowers across the country on the need for affordable student debt payments and relief.

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  • News Clips
    Mar 28, 2025

    More than 3 million seniors carry student loan debt. Here’s what they can do.

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  • Press Releases
    Jan 11, 2023

    Historic Coalition of Cities, States, Experts, and Advocates Defend Action to Cancel Student Debt Before the Supreme Court

    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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  • Press Releases
    May 27, 2022

    Historic Labor and Civil Rights Coalition of 500+ Organizations Calls on Joe Biden to “Immediately” Cancel Student Debt

    Organizations from all 50 states demand executive action on student debt as new tracking poll continues to show likely voters support action by 2:1 margin.

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  • Letters & Memos
    Apr 6, 2022

    Older Borrower Voices on the Incomplete Promise of Relief through IDR

    This memo highlights how an Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) fix will only provide relief to older borrowers with decades-old loans if it provides credit towards relief for time in default, forbearance, and deferment.

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  • Blogs
    Dec 22, 2020

    Why FFEL Borrowers Are Routinely Denied Access to PSLF

    This report looks at the fate of public service workers who owe older federal loans made by banks and other private lenders and guaranteed by the federal government under the Federal Family Education Loans Program

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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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  • 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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