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Education Secretary DeVos’ “Closed to Press” Meeting With Student Loan Servicers a Cop Out
It’s going to take a lot more than a closed-door meeting to make up for the Trump Administration’s record of allowing the student loan industrial complex to systematically mistreat and cheat borrowers, free of any consequence.
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Payday Lenders Prey Especially on Struggling Women
Women make up approximately 60 percent of payday loan customers and payday loan use is even higher among single mothers.
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DeVos’s Education Department: Trick Student Borrowers, Treat Servicer and For-Profit College Execs
Here Are the Top 5 Ways DeVos’ Inaction Encourages Her Spooky Industry Friends to Bury Borrowers in Debt Elm St., Washington D.C. – Ever since Secretary Betsy DeVos’ private jet first touched down en route to the Education Department, it’s been a horror show for student borrowers. DeVos has taken an ax to borrower protections against…
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DeVos’ Terrible, No Good, Awful Week of Headlines a Reflection Of Her Vacant Leadership
Held in contempt of court for illegally shaking down defrauded students for debts they don’t owe. Sued for sitting on thousands of valid debt forgiveness claims. Facing subpoenas in a growing accreditation scandal and calls for the firing of her top aide at the center of it. It’s no wonder Secretary DeVos is on edge…
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DeVos Must Fire Aid Who Lied to Congress About Accreditation Scandal
Senior DeVos Aide Diane Auer Jones Feigned Ignorance About Unaccredited For-Profit College Campuses Illegally Receiving Federal Student Aid – The Record Shows She Lied To Congress Washington D.C. – The Trump-DeVos Education Department’s Dream Center accreditation scandal is somehow worse than originally thought. It was first reported in July that top DeVos aide Diane Auer…
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Facing Legal Trouble, DeVos’ ED Promises Judge “Better Oversight” of Student Loan Servicers … Despite Record Protecting the Industry at Every Turn
Washington D.C. – Struggling student borrowers got their answer to what it would take for Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to finally acknowledge bad behavior in the student loan servicing industry. Turns out it’s the prospect of being held in contempt of court and even serving jail time, which arose this week after DeVos defied…
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Backlog of Student Loan Borrower Defense Claims Soars to 210K as DeVos Education Department has Not “Approved or Denied Any Claim in More Than a Year.”
Allied Progress director Derek Martin reacts to news that the Trump-DeVos Department of Education hasn’t processed a single loan forgiveness claim in over a year: “It must be easy for Betsy DeVos to sleep in her mansion each night regardless of whether she does her job, but the millions of people she’s failed by not…
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DeVos’ Education Department Second Least Popular Federal Agency … Next to ICE
See October 2 Education Week story, ‘The Education Department Is a Little More Popular Than ICE, New Survey Finds’; reaction from Derek Martin, Director of consumer watchdog group Allied Progress: “Does Betsy DeVos even care the public is only slightly less put off by her department than the agency that puts kids in cages? If the Secretary…
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Why is Betsy DeVos Tolerating a An Unexcused Absence From a Student Loan Servicer CEO?
The CEO is refusing to update Congress on implementation of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. WASHINGTON, DC — James H. Steeley, the President and CEO of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) – the student loan servicer that oversees the troubled Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program – is refusing to testify today before the House…
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New Report: DeVos Abandons Student Loan Borrowers After Servicers Spend Millions on Lobbying and Politics
Student loan servicers flood D.C. with cash, and DeVos hobbles borrower protections rather than holding servicers accountable.