The United States is in the midst of a student loan crisis. The crisis is found reflected in the altered lives of student loan borrowers who have been harmed by a student loan industry operating under a set of rules intrinsically unfair to borrowers. The stories of millions of student loan borrowers unfairly treated by student loan lenders, guarantors, servicers, secondary market participants, and the federal government provide stark examples of how our student loan industry has harmed borrowers by prioritizing the interests of big business over the interests of student loan borrowers in America.

The exclusive purpose of our association, the Student Loan Advocates and Volunteer Exchange (SLAVE), is to promote and protect the interests of student loan borrowers. We invite all individuals who support our mission to join SLAVE, and to participate in the development of our community. Check out the depth of our web-based community infrastructure, which includes forums, chat, blogs, authorship and publishing of online books, online polls and surveys, and RSS news feeds that bring you current student loan news from a variety of news organizations. Support our litigation and lobbying initiatives by volunteering, serving as co-counsel, or making a financial donation. The only way SLAVE can achieve its objectives and goals, and ultimately accomplish its mission, is through the active participation of student loan borrowers and other individuals who support our efforts to protect the interests of student loan borrowers.

The big picture

Student loan borrowers typically leave college with student loan obligations requiring a decade or more to repay, creating a socioeconomic class of wage slaves that spend the most critical portion of their wage-earning lives (the early years) digging out from under a pile of debt. Some student borrowers spend their entire wage-earning lives paying off a virtual mountain of debt. They do not deserve to be negligently or intentionally harmed by a student loan system that fails to protect their interests. Borrowers of student loans, and their families and dependents, make substantial long-term sacrifices to achieve academic objectives, and they need and deserve an organization committed to the aggressive defense of their best interests. SLAVE is dedicated to protecting the interests of all student loan borrowers in the United States.

Until now, the millions of United States citizens who have graduated from college as financial slaves to their student loans have few (if any) connections to each other, no dedicated entity lobbying on their behalf in Washington, no common voice with which to speak, and no organization of legal advocates committed to representing their interests. The lack of connectedness among the SLAVE constituency has enabled our student loan system to evolve into an industry that serves profiteers and harms borrowers. A primary purpose of SLAVE is to establish a community of individuals committed to reforming the student loan industry in the United States into a system held accountable for failures to protect the interests of student loan borrowers. The problem is complicated and entrenched, and the solution will require substantial resources. However, there are many things we all can do to seek an effective solution to the student loan crisis in our country.

Join SLAVE today!

The time is now. There is no cost to join our organization. Membership in SLAVE is limited to individuals who are supportive of our mission. Visitors can browse the basic content areas of the SLAVE website, but membership is required to contribute content or interact with SLAVE members. Create a new member account at the log-in block on the right side of this page, and add your voice to our united effort to protect the interests of student loan borrowers. Before creating your SLAVE account, visit our privacy page for important information on how to protect your privacy on our website.