In May 2012, the National Consumer Law Center’s Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project released  Borrowers on Hold:  Student Loan Collection Agency Complaint Systems Need Massive Improvement, focusing on major gaps […]

Unfortunately, the bad news about student loan debt burdens keeps coming.  The Education Sector recently highlighted a number of troubling trends, including: From 1994 to 2009: The percent of graduates […]

Social Security helps give aging and disabled Americans peace of mind.  No matter how destitute we become, Social Security is meant to give us some measure of confidence that we […]

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is requesting information about ways to provide relief for private student loan borrowers.  Comments must be received on or before April 8, 2013.  This […]

More than two years have passed since the Department of Education pulled the private collection agency handbook off of its web site and as far as we can tell, the […]

Despite all of the government money spent on financial aid, the difference in college graduation rates between our nation’s top and bottom income groups has widened by nearly 50% over […]

A recent New York Times article focuses on the low college entry and completion rates for lower-income students.  Greg Duncan, an economist at the University of California, Irvine summarizes these […]

2012 is almost over and it’s time for our annual “look back” at the year that was.  Student loan issues were a hot topic this year.  Much of the attention […]

We have long argued that the Department of Education should tie its standards for student loan disability discharges to Social Security standards.  At last, we are starting to see some […]

Now that the election is over, we hope that policymakers and the Administration will focus on fixing the student aid system.   In order to do this, it is critical to […]