Government,
Education Law
Mar. 3, 2020
With AB 376 California can help respond to the student debt crisis
Today, nearly one in four Californians each carry an average student debt obligation exceeding $35,000. That adds up to more than $135 billion of outstanding student loans in the state, nearly 10% of the total $1.5 trillion federal student loan debt.
Dalié Jiménez
Professor
UC Irvine School of Law
Dalié teaches bankruptcy, secured transactions, contracts, and consumer financial protection courses, and co-directs the school's Student Loan Law Initiative. Professor Jiménez also spent a year as part of the founding staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau working on debt collection, debt relief, credit reporting, and student loan issues.
Jonathan D. Glater
Professor
UC Irvine School of Law
Email: jglater@law.uci.edu
Jonathan teaches education law and policy, among other things. His research and writing focuses on accessibility of higher education. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Glater for nine years worked as a reporter at The New York Times, where he wrote about the business of law and about higher education finance.
Education plays a critical role in our democracy but debt can undermine it, raising students' costs and discouraging some from pursuing opportunities that can benefit us all. Today, nearly one in four Californians each carry an average student debt obligation exceeding $35,000. That adds up to more than $135 billion of outstanding student loans in the state, nearly 10% of the total $1.5 trillion federal student loan debt.
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