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Group Letter on Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination

October 27, 2021

Organizations write to urge Ambassador Susan Rice to place a high priority on ensuring that data-driven technologies — including algorithmic decision-making, artificial intelligence, and machine learning increasingly used to make important decisions about people’s lives — protect civil rights, prevent unlawful discrimination, and advance equal opportunity.

Group Letter from Over 200 Organizations to President Biden Urging Extension of the Pause on Student Loan Payments

December 8, 2021

207 organizations write to urge President Joe Biden to put a stop to a crisis in the making by extending the current pause on student loan payments. It is clear that payments should not resume until your administration has fully delivered on the promises you made to student loan borrowers to fix the broken student loan system and cancel federal student debt.

Group Letter Calling on President Biden to Cancel Federal Student Debt Immediately Via Executive action

May 27, 2022

The 529 undersigned community, civil rights, education, climate, health, consumer, labor, professional, food and farm, and student advocacy organizations write to urge you to strengthen the economy, tackle racial disparities, and provide much-needed relief to help all Americans weather the pandemic and record inflation by using executive authority to cancel federal student debt immediately.

Group Comments Urging Dept. of Education to Adopt Stronger Borrower Defense Rule and Opposing Proposed Rule

August 30, 2018

Group Comments Urging Dept. of Education to Adopt Stronger Borrower Defense Rule and Opposing Proposed Rule

Group Comments to the U.S. Department of Education Regarding Changes to Reporting on Distance Education

May 20, 2019

The proposed change in distance education reporting in the completions survey component will better align the survey with the ways institutions organize their programs.

Group Comments to the National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements Urging Policy Revisions

November 30, 2020

Group comments to the National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements urging policy revisions for Spring 2021

Group Comments to the National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements

April 16, 2021

Letter to the National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements concerning our shared goal of ensuring that higher education students are protected from predatory schools and have access to high-quality education that does not leave them with unmanageable debt, whether they enroll in brick-and-mortar programs or in online education.

Group Comments to the FDIC Regarding Small-Dollar Lending

January 22, 2019

Comments submitted in response to the FDIC’s Request for Information on Small-Dollar Lending

Group Comments to the FCC Regarding Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services

September 27, 2021

WC Docket No. 12-375

Group Comments to the FCC Regarding Petitions for Reconsideration of Regulations Establishing Limits on Exempt Automated Calls

April 27, 2021

CG Docket No. 02-278 Report No. 3170

Group Comments to the FCC Regarding Notice of Ex Parte Presentation

September 17, 2021

This ex parte Notice relates to a meeting held on September 2, 2021 on the various Petitions for Reconsideration of the new regulations limiting prerecorded calls to residential lines issued in late 2020 by the Federal Communications Commission as required by the TRACED Act.

Group Comments to the CFPB Regarding Seasoned Qualified Mortgage Loan Definition

October 1, 2020

The Qualified Mortgage rule will play a significant role in the shape of the mortgage market going forward and whether homeowners who have been harmed by unsustainable loans, the types of loans targeted by the Dodd-Frank legislation, will have recourse to protect their homes from foreclosure and obtain an affordable mortgage loan. We therefore respectfully request a 60-day extension to this comment period.

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