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June 17, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT

Town Hall: What's Changing for Student Loan Borrowers and How We Fight Back

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About This Webinar

AFT Member Town Hall

On July 1, some of the harshest changes to the federal student loan system in decades take effect. This is no accident. These rules were pushed through by an administration that decided educators, nurses, and public service workers should pay more, borrow less, and wait longer for the relief they were promised.

Join AFT President Randi Weingarten for an emergency virtual town hall on what's being taken from borrowers and how we fight back. We'll break down the repayment plans being ripped away and replaced with a costlier system; the new restrictions on Public Service Loan Forgiveness that put years of payments at risk for the people who serve our communities; the elimination of Grad PLUS loans and new borrowing caps that lock working families out of graduate and professional degrees; and the deadlines you cannot afford to miss before July 1. You'll learn exactly how these changes hit your loans, what you can still do to protect yourself, and how to join the fight to reverse them. Come with your questions and hear how AFT is fighting for you.

Speakers

Mike Pierce

Executive Director and Co-Founder, Student Borrower Protection Center

Mike Pierce is Executive Director and co-founder of the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC). Mike is an attorney, advocate, and former senior regulator who spent more than a decade fighting for student loan borrowers’ rights on Capitol Hill and at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Before he left government service to start SBPC, for seven years, Mike was the CFPB’s lead subject-matter expert on higher education and consumer protection.

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President, AFT

RANDI WEINGARTEN is president of the 1.8 million-member AFT, AFL-CIO, which represents teachers; paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; local, state and federal government employees; and early childhood educators. The AFT champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for students, their families and communities. The AFT and its members advance these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through members’ work.

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