"If officials in Washington want to take meaningful action against the student debt crisis, the most important step is to stop backing loans to schools that leave their students with no hope of gainful employment. And if that means eating loans that never should have been made in the first place, then so be it. Policy makers in Congress and the US Department of Education need to understand that there’s a cost to facilitating billions of dollars in loans to students who attended dodgy schools — and that cost shouldn’t be borne solely, or even primarily, by young people who were simply gulled."
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2016/02/02/feds-should-own-student-loan-problem/QbPeEJ33N0RfPSIWVn1SAM/story.html
https://debtcollective.org/defense-to-repayment