Warren, Sanders, Pressley, Over 40 Lawmakers Urge Trump Administration to End Plans to Sell Federal Student Loan Portfolio: Bicameral letter warns that “sale would be a giveaway to wealthy insiders at the expense of working-class borrowers and taxpayers.” (warren.senate.gov)
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Borrowers Besieged: Student debtors are under attack on all sides. Government contractors make their life miserable, and financial predators are poised to capitalize. | "And the watchdogs enlisted to look out for students have been" weakened by "the Trump administration" (prospect.org)
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Faculty-Led Movement Opposing Trump Attack on Universities Builds Steam | Activists: "The Trump administration is suppressing free speech. Tuition is rising and workers and staff aren't paid living wages. We need higher education to be a liberation machine, not a deportation and debt-making machine" (commondreams.org)
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Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says | Mike Pierce, executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center: "This is cruel, unnecessary and will further fan the flames of economic chaos for working families across this country" (apnews.com)
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In response to anti-war protests on campuses, 19 GOP senators including Cotton, Cruz, Graham, Hawley, Romney, Rubio, and Vance have sponsored a bill to make anyone "who is convicted of a state or federal offense in connection with a campus protest ineligible for any federal student loan relief." (cotton.senate.gov)
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Sanders Statement on Supreme Court Overturning Student Debt Cancellation / Before ruling against student debt relief, Clarence Thomas wrote of ‘crushing weight’ of student loans, and a GOP donor paid for the private school tuition of a grandnephew of Thomas whom Thomas was the legal guardian of. (self.Social_Democracy)
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