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Advocates Praise Senators for Bold Student Loan Principles

March 19, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 19, 2020 National Consumer Law Center Contact: Jan Kruse at [email protected] Boston – Today, U.S. Senators Schumer, Murray, Brown, and Warren introduced a proposal outlining their plan to protect the financial interests of millions of student loan borrowers during the COVID-19 pandemic by cancelling borrowers’ student loan payments and protecting defaulted…

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Advocate Statement Opposing Sen. Alexander’s Legislation to Reform Higher Education Act

September 26, 2019

Boston – Statement of Persis Yu, director of the National Consumer Law Center’s Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project, in response to today’s introduction of a scaled-back higher education bill by Senator Lamar Alexander: “Students and borrowers need real, wholesale reform of the Higher Education Act to make it easier for borrowers to succeed in student…

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Report: Defaulted Federal Student Loan Borrowers in Communities of Color Are Disproportionately Sued

April 24, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: APRIL 24, 2019 Download the full report: http://bit.ly/2vj2uzz Boston — Today, the National Consumer Law Center released a report which paints a troubling picture of the efforts by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice to pursue defaulted student loan borrowers through litigation. “Lamentably, the evidence suggests that communities of color are…

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Advocates Praise Senators for Bold Student Loan Principles

Advocate Statement Opposing Sen. Alexander’s Legislation to Reform Higher Education Act

Report: Defaulted Federal Student Loan Borrowers in Communities of Color Are Disproportionately Sued

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