End the student loan trap!

For decades, our nation invested in its students — and in its future — by providing a low-cost or tuition-free college education to everyone who was willing to work hard and succeed. Then this public investment was slashed. Instead, we convinced people to borrow for their own education by promising prosperity and advancement.

It was a trap. And we are here to shut it down.

The publicly-funded system that invested in previous generations has been replaced with a student loan trap that imprisons students with unexpectedly high interest rates, unfair penalties, and debt collection practices designed to benefit private corporations like Navient and Sallie Mae.

44 million people are imprisoned by student debt: the victims of a failed social experiment — and broken promises. Let's end the student loan trap.