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The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U. S. History and How We Can Fight Back

The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U. S. History and How We Can Fight Back

An in-depth exploration and expose of the predatory nature of the student-loan industry

2010

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Dec 17, 2025

Meaningful Student Loan Reform Depends upon the Return of Bankruptcy Rights.

No one has to actually file.

Meaningful Student Loan Reform Depends upon the Return of Bankruptcy Rights.

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Dec 11, 2025

Democratic Trickery, Republican Cruelty and Student Loans.

The program is failed. Both sides fight to keep it going.

Democratic Trickery, Republican Cruelty and Student Loans.

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Apr 11, 2025

Three-Fourths of Student Loan Borrowers are not making payments.

The lending program has failed.

Three-Fourths of Student Loan Borrowers are not making payments.

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May 5, 2025

Rehabilitating, Consolidating Student Loans out of Default is a Terrible Idea.

~80% of Rehabilitated Loans Default Again. Consolidating out of default is similarly unwise.

Rehabilitating, Consolidating Student Loans out of Default is a Terrible Idea.

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Oct 5, 2024

Astroturf has Overrun Student Loan Activism.

Updated, January 3, 2025

Astroturf has Overrun Student Loan Activism.

Alan Collinge

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May 5

Older people now greatly outnumber younger people with student loans.

They owe far more, on average, despite having borrowed far less.

Older people now greatly outnumber younger people with student loans.

Alan Collinge

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Nov 19, 2025

Trump’s Plan to Sell-Off Student Loan Portfolio Won’t Happen.

It is likely illegal, robbery of the Taxpayers, and political suicide.

Trump’s Plan to Sell-Off Student Loan Portfolio Won’t Happen.

Alan Collinge

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Jul 21, 2025

The Federal Student Loan Program is in its Death Throes.

The Pandemic was the Nail in the Coffin. It must be ended and replaced.

The Federal Student Loan Program is in its Death Throes.

Alan Collinge

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Jul 11, 2025

Student Loans: The Ugly Truth about the “Big Beautiful Bill”.

After passage of the Republican’s “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) last week, the mainstream media has focused almost exclusively on the…

Student Loans: The Ugly Truth about the “Big Beautiful Bill”.

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Jul 3, 2025

All Student Loan “Income-Driven Repayment” Plans are Cruel, Life-long Jokes.

Both existing- and proposed- plans disqualify the overwhelming majority of borrowers out.

All Student Loan “Income-Driven Repayment” Plans are Cruel, Life-long Jokes.

Alan Collinge

Alan Collinge

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I am Founder of StudentLoanJustice.Org, author of The Student Loan Scam (Beacon Press), and creator of the petition Change.Org/CancelStudentLoans

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