Strike Debt

https://debtcollective.org/

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The Debt Collective is a new membership organization that leverages collective power by offering debtors a shared platform for organization, advocacy, and direct action. Alone, our debts are a burden; together, they make us powerful. debtcollective.org

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Jun 19, 2025	The Student Loan Tightrope: Balancing Debt and Opportunity in a New Era	The landscape of student loans in the United States is shifting. The Senate's recent budget proposal, part of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” aims to reshape how borrowers manage their debt. But with this transformation comes a tight...
Jun 18, 2025	3 student loan changes in Republican bill: Getting out of debt would be ‘extremely hard,’ advocate says	GOP lawmakers, in their “big beautiful” bill, plan to eliminate several student loan repayment plans and keep borrowers in debt longer. Consumer advocates warn that the legislation will deepen a lending crisis in which millions of borrowers...
May 15, 2025	Older people in crosshairs as government restarts Social Security garnishment on student loans	Farro’s loans date back 40 years. She was a single mother when she got a bachelor’s degree in developmental psychology and when she discovered she couldn’t earn enough to pay off her loans, she went back to school and got a master’s degree....
Dec 28, 2024	Миллионы пенсионеров в США до сих пор не могут расплатиться с долгами за учёбу	Митинг пожилых заёмщиков возле здания Департамента образования 11 декабря 2024 года По данным Департамента образования США, 2,8 млн человек в возрасте 62 лет и старше должны в общей сложности $121,5 млрд по кредитам за учёбу. Более 726 тыс....
Sep 12, 2024	Debt Collective Seniors Lead First Elder Action for Student Debt Relief	WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, dozens of older student debtors over the age of 50 — including the Debt Collective’s ‘50 Over 50’ caucus — took action at the White House to demand the Biden-Harris administration discha...
Feb 21, 2023	What Biden’s Debt Relief Plan Actually Does—and How It Is Tailored to Respond to the Pandemic	As the Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments in two cases concerning the Department of Education’s plan to grant partial debt relief to some student borrowers emerging from the coronavirus pandemic, critics have argued to the Court,...
Jul 11, 2021	Here’s how student debt could be redefined by the nation’s first debtors’ union. Democracy might just get rescued in the process.	Astra Taylor, founder of the Debt Collective, told Insider student debt is threatening democracy. She said that after the Civil War, debt was used to wield power over marginalized communities. Biden is “playing with fire” not following thro...
	Meet the student loan borrowers refusing to pay their debt, hoping Biden will forgive it	The Biden Jubilee 100 is a group of student loan borrowers who have stopped paying their debts. The Debt Collective, which calls itself “a union for debtors,” has organized the strike of borrowers who hope to put pressure on President Joe B...
	Debt ceiling deal would push student loan borrowers into repayment by fall	If nothing in the debt ceiling deal changes, the pause on federal student loan payments will “cease to be effective” within months. However, the Biden administration was able to keep its sweeping loan forgiveness plan off the chopping block...
	Key events on the path to student loan forgiveness, from Occupy Wall Street to the 2020 presidential primaries	The push to get student debt canceled started over a decade ago, during the Occupy Wall Street movement. This is how we got here.
	Why activist Astra Taylor is not giving up on student loan forgiveness	Astra Taylor has been fighting to get student debt forgiven for a decade. She’s not giving up now: “The genie of debt cancellation is not going back in the bottle.”
	Here's how student debt could be redefined by the nation's first debtors' union. Democracy might just get rescued in the process. The roots of debt and democracy Biden is 'playing with fire' on debt cancellation	Jacquelyn Martin/AP Astra Taylor, co-founder of the Debt Collective, told Insider student debt is threatening democracy. She said that after the Civil War, debt was used to wield power over marginalized communities. Biden is "playing w...
	She’s been pushing for student loan forgiveness for a decade. Now it could happen	Astra Taylor co-founded Debt Collective, the first union for debtors, nearly a decade ago. Broad student loan forgiveness could be the union’s biggest win. CNBC asked Taylor about what it’s like to finally see something you’ve been fighting...
	Debt ceiling deal: Opposition grows to ending student loan relief	A measure in the proposed debt ceiling deal that would terminate the student loan payment pause is facing heavy opposition from advocates and progressives. More than 60% of voters want the stay on student loan bills to be extended if Presid...

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FAQ about Strike Debt

When was Strike Debt founded?

Strike Debt was founded in 2018.

What has the press written about Strike Debt?

Parsers VC has collected 15 articles mentioning Strike Debt, among them “The Student Loan Tightrope: Balancing Debt and Opportunity in a New Era” (Jun 19, 2025) and “3 student loan changes in Republican bill: Getting out of debt would be ‘extremely hard,’ advocate says” (Jun 18, 2025).

Is Strike Debt still active?

Yes, Strike Debt is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 8, 2025.