Attorney Minsky publishes a nationally recognized student loan blog. In addition, he is a Senior Contributor on Forbes, he has published books, written and co-written book chapters and articles on student loan law, and he’s been interviewed by major news outlets in Massachusetts, New York, and beyond on the latest developments in student loan policy.
Books & Articles
The Student Loan Handbook for Law Students and Attorneys
The #1 guidebook for lawyers with student loans, with roadmaps for specific attorney career paths. Published by the American Bar Association.
Student Loan Debt 101: The Definitive Guide to Understanding and Managing Your Student Loans
Please note that this student loan guidebook is currently unavailable, but stay tuned for an updated edition!
The Student Loan Guide for Parents and Cosigners
Please note that this student loan guidebook is currently unavailable, but stay tuned for an updated edition!
Senior Contributor, Forbes.com, 2018-Present
Contributor, “Student Loan Law,”
National Consumer Law Center, Fifth Edition, 2015-2018
Author, Aspatore Special Report: Understanding the Current Student Loan Landscape: Analyzing the Student Loan Interest Rate Bill and Overcoming Economic Challenges, April 1, 2014
Author, “Can You Get A Mortgage Even Though You Have Student Loan Debt?”
The 2014 Homebuying Mentors Resource Guide, January 1, 2014
Contributor, The Indentured Generation: Bankruptcy and Student Loan Debt
by Daniel A. Austin, Santa Clara Law Review, August 22, 2013
Press
“Life and Debt: What’s next for student loan borrowers,” NPR’s 1A, May 18, 2023
“Supreme Court: Why Kavanaugh, Barrett may be key to student loan forgiveness cases,” USA Today, March 1, 2023
“Biden Loan Forgiveness Has Narrow Path to Victory Via Standing,” Bloomberg Law, March 1, 2023
“Local Attorneys, Advocates Anxiously Watch As High Court Weighs Biden’s Student Loan Plan,” The Boston Globe, March 1, 2023
“Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan goes before the Supreme Court,” Marketplace, February 28, 2023
“Regardless of Student Loan Forgiveness Outcome, New Regulation Will Keep Interest in Check,” Yahoo Finance, February 25, 2023
“Student loan borrowers seeking debt relief in limbo after legal setback,” CBS News Boston, November 11, 2022
“A window is closing for government, nonprofit employees to get student loans forgiven,” Marketplace, October 27, 2022
“What’s Next in the Fight Over Student Loan Forgiveness,” Time, October 25, 2022
“How to Apply for Student Loan Forgiveness ,” The Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2022
“Lawsuit aims to stop Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan,” The Washington Post, September 27, 2022
“Republicans are readying lawsuits to block Biden’s student debt plan,” The Washington Post, September 1, 2022
“Adam Minsky on Student Loan Debt and Forgiveness,” C-Span, The Washington Journal, April 20, 2022
“She Expected to Have $40K in Student Loans Forgiven. Instead, She’s On the Hook For All of It,” NBC Boston, September 1, 2022
“Student Loan Forgiveness Isn’t Happening. Here’s How to Prepare as Payments Resume,” NextAdvisor in partnership with Time Magazine, December 14, 2021
“Changes announced for public service loan forgiveness; ABA urges government to do more,” ABA Journal, October 7, 2021
“Will the freeze on student loan payments get extended again?,” Fortune, September 9, 2021
“Adam Minsky on Student Loan Debt and Forgiveness,” Washington Journal, C-SPAN, August 12, 2021
“Is Student Loan Forgiveness Coming? Here’s What 5 Experts Predict Will Happen,” NextAdvisor in partnership with Time Magazine, April 29, 2021
“When It Makes Sense to Refinance Your Student Loans, and When It Doesn’t,” NextAdvisor in partnership with Time Magazine, November 9, 2020
“Everything Students and Parents Need to Know About Getting Financial Aid and Student Loans,” People Magazine, October 1, 2020
“For Student-Loan Borrowers, There Is Some Relief—but That Isn’t the Whole Story,” The Wall Street Journal, September 7, 2020
“Have a Student Loan From a Private Lender? Here’s How to Get Some Relief,” The Wall Street Journal, July 5, 2020
“Student Loan Expert Adam Minsky’s 4 Tips for the Coronavirus Pandemic,” Student Loan Hero, May 29, 2020
“Americans Begin Receiving Coronavirus Stimulus Checks,” CBS News Boston, April 15, 2020
“Education Department to halt collection of defaulted student loans, refund $1.8 billion,” The Washington Post, March 24, 2020
“How to make a student loan complaint that gets results,” The Associated Press, February 27, 2020
“The Education Department’s ‘Expanded’ Loan-Forgiveness Program for Public Service Has the Same Rejection Rate as Before: 99 Percent,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 5, 2019
“Student Debt Reform, or Student Debt Forgiveness? What The Candidates’ Plans Mean,” The Real News Network, August 11, 2019
“The 7 stupidest things we do with money,” The Boston Globe, June 13, 2019
“Cosigning a student loan? Be prepared to pay,” Reuters, May 16, 2019
“Staffing Shortage At Education Department’s Loan Default Units Frustrates Struggling Borrowers,” The Washington Post, March 21, 2019
“State lawmakers propose to regulate student loans — all but inviting a lawsuit,” The Boston Globe, February 6, 2019
“Yes, you still need to pay your student loans during the shutdown — but you could hit some snags,” MarketWatch, January 13, 2019
“Can You Settle Student Loan Debt?,” U.S. News and World Report, January 11, 2019
“Gifting your kids a ‘career concierge’ could give them an edge to land that dream job,” MarketWatch, December 9, 2018
“Don’t make this common student loan mistake that can cost you thousands of dollars,” CNBC, November 30, 2018
“Yes, It Really Is Possible To Discharge Student Loans In Bankruptcy,” The Huffington Post, November 16, 2018
“Student Loan Crisis: Company Accused of Predatory Practices,” NBC News Boston / NECN, November 15, 2018
“The Incredible, Rage-Inducing Inside Story of America’s Student Debt Machine,” Mother Jones Magazine, September-October 2018 issue
“Why So Many Students Aren’t Receiving Loan Forgiveness,” NPR’s “On Point” Radio Show, August 27, 2018
“Is the interest rate on your student loan going up? Here’s what you can do about it,” MarketWatch, August 21, 2018
“Older Americans: The new face of student loan debt,” Fox Business, August 11, 2018
“This map shows the states where the student loan crisis hits the hardest,” CNBC, August 1, 2018
“The government expanded access to student loan forgiveness—just read the fine print,” Marketwatch, May 24, 2018
“6 Legit Ways To Lower Your Student Loan Payments,” The Huffington Post, May 9, 2018
“Trump administration may make it easier to wipe out student debt in bankruptcy,” CNBC, February 22, 2018
“What Parents Can Do to Reduce Borrowing and Repay College Loans,” U.S. News and World Report, February 15, 2018
“What Every Borrower Should Know About Student Loan Interest Rates,” U.S. News and World Report, February 6, 2018
“On How Having Student Loans led to a Profitable Solo Practice – with Adam Minsky, Student Loan Lawyer (podcast),” The Happy Lawyer Project, January 23, 2018
“For Student Borrowers, Time to Start Repaying Loans,” The New York Times, November 10, 2017
“Lawmakers ask Dept. of Ed to extend student loan discharge for Charlotte School of Law students,” American Bar Association Journal, November 7, 2017
“Drowning in debt? Here are some potential lifelines (podcast),” American Bar Association Journal, September 25, 2017
“After Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rescinds consumer protections, Massachusetts mulls more regulations for student loan industry,” MassLive, September 13, 2017
“Universities in Va. hit students with whopping collection fees for unpaid tuition,” The Washington Post, August 5, 2017
“How to get a student loan debt collector off your back,” CNBC, July 26, 2017
“Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt,” Bloomberg News, May 19, 2017
“Parents, What to Know Before You Borrow for Your Child’s College Education,” U.S. News and World Report, May 2, 2017
“Lapsed Student Loan Payments May Cost You a Tax Refund,” The New York Times, April 14, 2017
“Betsy DeVos Rolls Back Obama-Era Student Loan Guidance,” NBC News, April 12, 2017
“Student Loan Provider Navient Claims Its Job Isn’t to ‘Act in the Interest of the Consumer’,” NBC News Boston / NECN, April 4, 2017
“Rubio pushes for student loan aid for victims of terrorism,” MarketWatch, January 26, 2017
“This is the fastest-growing segment of borrowers burdened by student loans,” The Boston Globe, January 22, 2017
“In Navient Lawsuits, Unsettling Echoes of Past Lending Crisis,” The New York Times, January 19, 2017
“Harmed by Navient? What student loan borrowers need to know,” USA Today, January 19, 2017
“Until debt do us part: When shared bills outlast the relationship,” The Boston Globe, December 27, 2016
“Student Loans: Experts Help Three College Grads $100k In Debt,” Time / Money Magazine, November 18, 2016
“Higher Ed Unsure on Trump Election,” The Boston Globe, November 9, 2016
“Federal watchdog sees major cracks in program to help student loan defaulters,” The Washington Post, October 17, 2016
“Borrower Complaints Mount Against Company That Handles Billing For MEFA Student Loans,” Channel 4 News Boston, WBZ / CBS Local, October 3, 2016
“The Financial Exchange Show,” WKRO Boston, August 18, 2016
“The Difficult Task of Qualifying for Student Loan Refinancing,” The Boston Globe, August 14, 2016
“Proposed Federal Rules for Student Loan Forgiveness Worry Some Nonprofit Colleges,” Inside Higher Ed, July 11, 2016
“Trying to Simplify Choices in Federal Student Loan Repayment Plans,” The New York Times, May 4, 2016
“Bankruptcy court urged to forgive $246K in student loan debt for unemployed man,” Fox 25 News Boston, April 15, 2016
“Why Obama is forgiving the student loans of nearly 400,000 people,” MSN Money, April 12, 2016
“Can the government force student debt collectors to actually help borrowers?,” MarketWatch, April 7, 2016
“Delays. Backlogs. Confusing applications. Obama’s latest student loan plan is having growing pains,” The Washington Post, April 5, 2016
“Company Accused of Preying on Student Loan Borrowers Files for Bankruptcy,” MarketWatch, February 12, 2016
“Is This Robocall Illegal? The Line Blurs for People with Student Debt,” MarketWatch, February 5, 2016
“Feds Order Firms Tricking Students to Cease and Desist,” MarketWatch, January 29, 2016
“Debt Dodgers: Meet the Americans Who Moved to Europe and Went AWOL on Their Student Loans,” VICE, January 17, 2016
“Know Who to Contact for Help With Parent PLUS Loans,” U.S. News & World Report, October 1, 2015
“When Your Social Security Check Disappears Because of an Old Student Loan,” MSN Money, June 25, 2015
“Are Conscientious Student-Loan Defaulters a Threat?,” National Journal, June 23, 2015
“Defaulting on Student Loans is Still a Bad Idea,” MarketWatch, June 8, 2015
“4 Costly Misconceptions About Student Loans,” U.S. News & World Report, May 15, 2015
“Some Students May Score Loan Relief When a College Closes,” U.S. News & World Report, May 6, 2015
“When Student Debt Relief Isn’t What It Seems,” MarketWatch, May 5, 2015
“Activists Hope to Turn a Debt Strike Into a Movement,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 10, 2015
“The Student Debt Revolt Might Just Work,” The Washington Post, April 1, 2015
“These Debt Strikers Are Refusing to Pay Their Student Loans,” Vice.com, March 31, 2015
“Law Schools, Bar Groups Urged to Rethink Debt Programs,” Boston Business Journal, Vol. 35, No. 4, February 27, 2015
“Student Activists Call for ‘Debt Strike’,” Inside Higher Ed, February 24, 2015
“Protect Cosigners, Families of Student Loan Borrowers With Life Insurance,” U.S. News & World Report, January 28, 2015
“Private Student Loan Refinancing Carries Risks, Rewards,” U.S. News & World Report, December 15, 2014
“4 Steps for Prepaying Student Loans the Smart Way,” U.S. News & World Report, November 24, 2014
“Carrying a Heavy Load- The Impact of Educational Debt,” Leslie A. Gordon, San Francisco Bar Association, Fall 2014
“How to Manage Your Student Loan Debt, and Other College Loan Questions. An Interview with Adam S. Minsky,” Boston.com, September 18, 2014
“The New Student Loan Fixers,” Vocativ, July 22, 2014
“Why Obama’s Budget Has a Bunch of Public Service Workers Worried About Their Student Loan Debt,” Boston.com, May 30, 2014
“Senator Warren Proposes New Bill to Refinance Student Loans,” The Daily Free Press, Jan. 26, 2014.
“Why it’s So Hard to Settle Student Loan Debt,” by Liz Weston, Reuters, Nov. 4, 2013.
“Government to Switch Student Loan Servicers: What You Need to Know,” Credit.com, August 15, 2013.
“A new Pay-As-You-Earn Student Loan Repayment Plan,” Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, February 2013.
“Unrepaired Education Dept. System Leaves Thousands Stuck in Default,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 19, 2012.
“Alum: Bill Proposing to Rid Loans After 10 Years Would Boost Students,” The Daily Free Press, April 17, 2012.
To Forgive is Divine,” Northeastern Law Alumni Magainze, Winter 2012 (Vol. 11, No. 1).