[ [link removed] ]Tell Congress: Support the Students Not Profits Act

The petition to Congress reads:
"Support the Students Not Profits Act of 2019 to make sure for-profit
colleges don't get federal aid to exploit and undereducate students."

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Dear Jack,

[ [link removed] ]Tell Congress: Support
the Students Not Profits
Act

For-profit colleges lie to students and leave them deeply in debt. They
have been repeatedly caught promising a great education and career success
in order to suck tuition dollars out of students and taxpayers. Some
for-profit college campuses have gone as far as bribing local temp
agencies to hire graduates for a day or two in order to artificially
inflate “job placement” rates.^1

But despite their grifter status, these colleges receive 15% of the total
U.S. financial aid each year – and a third of them get almost all their
revenue from federal sources.^2

Progressive champions Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Sen. Sherrod Brown want to
put a stop to that. They recently introduced a bill, the Students Not
Profits Act of 2019, that would cut off federal aid from for-profit
colleges. Can you help build momentum for the bill today?

[ [link removed] ]Tell Congress: Pass the Students Not Profits Act. Click here to sign
the petition.

This crisis is even worse with Betsy DeVos at the Department of Education.
News recently broke that her department gave almost $11 million to
unaccredited art schools in Illinois and Colorado.^3 She spent the last
three years sabotaging the Obama-era Student Aid Enforcement Unit, a move
seemingly designed to help give scam artists and predatory for-profit
schools a free pass.^4

It should be no surprise that a billionaire champion of school
privatization would be siding with greedy corporations over students.
DeVos clearly doesn't care that for-profit schools are responsible for 34%
of student loan defaults, despite only enrolling 9% of post-secondary
students.^5 She doesn't care that students are going into massive debt for
little to no employment reward. She just wants to help her billionaire
buddies line their pockets.

Luckily, Rep. Jayapal and Sen. Brown are pushing back. Their bill would
end subsidies to for-profit schools and ensure that taxpayers stop paying
for the exploitation of so many of our neighbors, family members and
friends. We need to build momentum for the bill now. Can you click the
link below to add your name today?

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Thanks for everything you do,

Heidi Hess, Co-Director
[ [link removed] ]CREDO Action from Working Assets

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References:

 1. Alan Pyke, "[ [link removed] ]The Inside Story Of How A For-Profit College Hoodwinked
Students And Got Away With It," ThinkProgress, Feb. 28, 2015.
 2. Annie Nova, "[ [link removed] ]Bill would make for-profit colleges ineligible for
federal student loans," CNBC, Oct. 23, 2019.
 3. Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, "[ [link removed] ]Trump administration let nearly $11
million in student aid go to unaccredited for-profit colleges," The
Washington Post, Oct. 22, 2019.
 4. Danielle Ivory, Erica L. Green and Steve Eder, "[ [link removed] ]Education
Department Unwinds Unit Investigating Fraud at For-Profits," The New
York Times, May 13, 2018.
 5. Americans for Financial Reform, "[ [link removed] ]News Release: The Students Not
Profits Act will protect public dollars from abuses at for-profit
colleges," Oct. 17, 2019.

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