Guess what? Debtless just canceled another $11 MILLION in debt meaning we've officially canceled over $36 MILLION in predatory debt for more than 33,000 borrowers!!! Our supporters truly make debt cancellation look easy. 💁♀️
Have you ever gone to pay your rent and there's a $3 fee on top of rent? Or maybe it costs $10 to pay with a credit card? Yeah. So that convenience/junk fee is actually illegal in several states.
Landlords do this all the time — but it's often illegal and makes the lease void.
No illness or diagnosis should ever put you at risk of losing your housing or having your Social Security check garnished because of the cost to obtain care. We need a complete transformation of our healthcare system to one that is free and universal.
with collections on student loans resuming in LESS THAN A WEEK along with the endless list of attacks on student loan borrowers, it’s more important than ever that we prioritize direct debt cancellation efforts full stop
Starting May 5, collections resume on defaulted student loans, impacting more than 5 million Americans. We urge the administration and lawmakers to stop this and protect folks who are already struggling financially.
The idea that student debt is held by the wealthy is simply detached from logic and reality.
Someone who takes out a loan to go to school is not rich. Someone struggling to pay it back is not rich.
These are working class people who are struggling.
DoorDash and Klarna have signed a deal where customers can choose to pay for food deliveries in interest-free installments or deferred options aligned with payday schedules.
Predatory lenders don’t actually *want* you to pay off your loans — the goal is to make money off of you for as long as possible. What’s more lucrative for lenders? You paying off your entire debt in a lump sum or never-ending monthly payments with tacked on interest?
So… paying off my student loans made my credit go down… because I saved enough money to pay them all at once… instead of just spending years paying the interest??
Wtf kind of system is this!?
So… paying off my student loans made my credit go down… because I saved enough money to pay them all at once… instead of just spending years paying the interest??
Wtf kind of system is this!?
New: Trump announced his Undersecretary of the Department of Education to be Nicholas Kent––the guy who heads the trade association for all predatory for-profit colleges which takes advantage of veterans, scams single mothers and defrauds folks seeking higher education.
Guest Column: Chappell Roan's #Grammys speech was a hackneyed and plagiarized script of an artist basking in industry love while broadcasting naïveté and taking aim at the very machine that got her there https://t.co/vfsD1huPOQ