Media

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Over the past two years, we have published, or been featured in a significant number of media pieces. Some of these are mentioned below.

Television Programs:

Sallie Mae's Success Too Costly? -Lesley Stahl, CBS News, May 7, 2006

Generation Debt - Geraldo Rivera, Fox Television, July 25, 2006

Predatory Student Loans - John Mercure, TMJ4 Wisconsin, February 21, 2007

Articles :

Bill Would Allow Borrowers to Discharge Private Loans in Bankruptcy, Kelly Field, Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept 20, 2007

Another Blow to Student Borrowers, Jenny O'Donnell, Port Folio Weekly, September 18, 2007

Proposed Law Tries to make College More Affordable, Quin Bowman, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, August 15th, 2007

Lenders, While Helping Students, Help Themselves, Paul Basken, The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 10th, 2007

No Justice for Student Borrowers, Jenny O'Donnell, Port Folio Weekly, July 21st, 2007

Taking out a Loan for College? Better read the Fine Print, Lenita Powers, Reno Gazette Journal, July 10, 2007

Owe Shit, Anya Kamenetz, Penthouse Magazine, June, 2007

Student Loan Agency Faces New Scrutiny , Carrie Sturrock, San Francisco Chronicle, May 16th, 2007

'Top Chef' Dreams Crushed by Student Loan Debt , Kim Severson, New York Times, May 8th, 2007

Sallie Mae Reaps Benefits From Ties to Key Agency, Paul Basken, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 7th, 2007

Law favors gambler Over Grad, Dave Newbart, Chicago Sun Times, May 6th, 2007

Probe Launched on Sallie Mae Collection Tactics, Amit Paley, The Washington Post, April 27th, 2007

Lending to Students a Gold Mine for Creditors, Davbid Washburn, San Diego Times Union, April 24th, 2007

Stock Options Provided to Financial Aid Officer by Student Lender, New America Foundation, April 4th, 2007

Press Release, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, State of New York, March 15th, 2007

Student Debt Mayhem, Jennifer C. O'Donnell, Port Folio Weekly, March 6th, 2007

More than a Rabble Rouser?, Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Ed, January 12, 2007

Manhandled No More, Catherine Tumber, The Phoenix, December 14th, 2006

Democrats: Make Student Loans Student Friendly, Bethany McLean, Fortune, November 13th, 2006

Private loans prove costly for college students- Carrie Sturrock - SF Chronicle, October 25th, 2006

Getting Schooled on Student Loans- Annys Shin - The Washington Post, October 24th, 2006

Student Loan Mayhem- Leslie Carbone - Washington Times, October 23rd, 2006

What Al Lord, Chairman of Sallie Mae, Refused to Tell 60 Minutes, Free Market News, May 8, 2006

The Student Business- Ralph Nader - In the Public Interest, May 7, 2006

Sallie Mae's Long Reach - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, March 30, 2006

How Al Lord, Chairman of Salie Mae, Jetted His Way to the Top, Free Market News, March 21st, 2006

Mae Celebrating Huge Win on Student Loans, Free Market News, February 20th, 2006

Competition is Good, Except When it Comes to Our Friends, Ken Moser, February 13th, 2006

What Did the Indians Want from John Boehner?, Free Market News, February 9th, 2006

Congress Gets an "F" for Student Loan Move - Terry Savage, Chicago Sun-Times, February 6th, 2006

Your Late Fees, Their Millions - Anya Kamenetz, The Village Voice, January 24th, 2006

Sallie Mae's Sweet Romance with Rep. John Boehner - Froma Harrop, RealClearPolitics, January 11th, 2006

Sallie Mae: A Hot Stock, A Tough Lender -Bethany McLean, Fortune Magazine, December 26th, 2005:

Robbing Joe College to Pay Sallie Mae, Anya Kamenetz, New York Times, December 12th, 2005

Congress to Cut loans for Students, Emily Baneman, Columbia Spectator, November 28th, 2005

Student Loan Shame, Times Union, November 27th, 2005

Political Animal, Kevin Drum, Washington Monthly, November 18, 2005

Student Loan Ripoff a Test of GOP Rhetoric , Dick Morris, Newsmax, November 16, 2005

Let All Students Refinance, the Times Tribune, November 18th, 2005

Student Borrowers Must Consolidate Now, Terry Savage, November 14th, 2005

Fight for Your Money or Lose It, Nancy Fay, The Campus (CCNY), October 26th, 2005

U.S. Gets Tough on Failure to Repay Student Loans, John Hechinger, Wall Street Journal, January 6th, 2004

Sallie Mae Not, Catherine Tumber, Boston Phoenix, December 4th, 2003

Recently Published StudentLoanJustice.Org OPEDs :

College Credit that Fails Students, Los Angeles Times, August 28th, 2007

Company’s March Toward Student Loan Monopoly Scary, Tacoma News Tribune, June 19th, 2007

Sallie Mae Insulting the American Public, January 23rd, 2007

Fix the Student Loan Mess, Denver Post, January 11th, 2007

Student Loans and the New Congress: Time to Stop the Bleeding, January 9th, 2007

Student Loan Guarantors Useless, Wasteful: Should Disappear, December 9th, 2006

Sallie Mae in Desperate, 11th-Hour Lobbying Frenzy, December 7th, 2007

It's the Corruption, Stupid! Why the Student Loan System should be Investigated, November 13th, 2006 

Student Will be Hurt by Loan Rates, October 24th, 2006 

Sallie Mae Doesn't Need to Break the Law- They Already Bought it!, Baltimore Sun, March 20th, 2006 

Cunningham Draws 'Go to Jail Card' - But Sallie Mae Is Still Landing on 'Free Parking', March 8, 2006 

 What do Boehner and Blunt have in Common? Sallie Mae Knows..., January 26, 2006 

 Boehner: Stand Tall to Protect Students, January 9, 2006 

 Student Loans Get Nasty, January 3, 2006 

White Papers

StudentLoanJustice.Org White Paper-The Bully In The Schoolyard:Why Sallie Mae Must Be Stopped

TICAS Briefing paper. May, 2005- Conversion of Non-Profit Student Loan Companies

The State PIRG's Higher Education Project, April, 2006: Paying Back, Not Giving Back

Other

Animation, March 30, 2006