The Boston Globe: AG, Elizabeth Warren help students mired in for-profit debt
Boston-Peguy Pierre stood inside the Boston University business school Tuesday evening with her 7-month-old daughter on her hip and her 10-year-old son by her side as she worked with a counselor trying to find a way to eliminate her student debt.
The 33-year-old Haitian immigrant, who now lives in Dorchester, registered for the Everest Institute in Brighton when her son Schlegel was born, hoping to find a career as a medical assistant.
"They promised they were going to help me find a job," she said of her alma mater. "Well, I don't have one."
Pierre and about 30 other former students of the institute gathered at BU for a workshop hosted by the attorney general's office. At the event, Attorney General Maura Healey, joined by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, tried to help the students fight back against the for-profit institute.
Read the full article on the Boston Globe here.
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