Appearing in The New York Times on March 20, 2026, Stacy Cowley talks to Kyra Taylor, staff attorney at NCLC, about recently released data from the Education Department, which showed that by the end of last year, 7.7 million borrowers had defaulted on $181 billion in federal student loans.
“The last thing student loan borrowers need is more chaos from the federal government,” said Kyra Taylor, a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center.
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