New York, a famously progressive state whose leaders constantly claim student debt should be wiped out and/or that college should be free, sues students who haven’t paid tuition debt and makes it almost impossible for them to defend themselves.
On his way out the door, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a $125 million debt relief program that would affect at least 50,000 students at New York’s state-run universities. Yet a new report from The New York Times shows that while New York’s leaders publicly tout debt forgiveness and advocate for free tuition, behind the scenes, the state routinely sues students who don’t pay. Not only that, but the state uses “a quirk in the law” to ensure that students must appear before a judge in Albany to defend themselves, a nearly impossible task for many of the state’s in-debt students who are struggling to get by.
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