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Appearing in Next Avenue on May 12, 2025, Chris Farrell quotes NCLC Co-Director of Advocacy Abby Shafroth in part 6 of a 12-part collaborative series between Next Avenue and Marketplace Morning Report covering how students in college rely on loans to pay for much of their higher education bill, and many young adults with student debt…
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Appearing in Inside Philanthropy on May 5, 2025, Wendy Paris discusses NCLC’s work to advocate for changes in policies around student loan debt and medical debt held by older adults. NCLC also fought for a change to how medical debt is reported, and won.
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Appearing in The New York Times on May 2, 2025, Ann Carnns interviewed NCLC Co-Director of Advocacy Abby Shafroth for coverage of how student loan borrowers should handle repayment options and anticipate adjustments later. “They’re graduating into a time of uncertainty around what their repayment options will look like. They should focus on what’s available…
Appearing in Boston Public Radio (GBH 89.7) on April 28, 2025, Jenifer B. McKim and Jade Lozada interview NCLC senior attorney Jenifer Bosco for coverage of how a growing number of Massachusetts residents have faced legal battles with a California-based company named Sunrun Inc. “For many customers, it works out fine. But there’s also been…
Appearing in the Washington Informer on April 25, 2025, Odette Williamson, senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center and director of NCLC’s Racial Justice and Equal Opportunity Project is quoted in coverage of the Trump administration’s move to limit the use of “disparate impact” analysis in identifying discrimination, effectively attempting to rewrite settled Supreme…
In an op-ed appearing in The Hill on April 24, 2025, NCLC Senior Attorney Chi Chi Wu discusses how the Trump administration escalated its assault on immigrants’ rights by reporting living people as “dead” in the Social Security Administration’s death master file, even though those people had lawfully obtained Social Security numbers. Such falsehoods by a government…
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