Josh Shapiro, other AGs lobby for federal student loan relief amid pandemic
Posted on AllSides March 28th, 2020
From The Center
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and New York General Attorney Letitia James led a group of more than two dozen attorneys general in urging the U.S. Department of Education to use its emergency powers to help federal student loan borrowers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The attorneys general wrote a letter to U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos asking her to take specific steps to protect borrowers from further financial burden and debt collection because of job losses and lost wages.
The letter said that although the Department of Education has already...
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