The Need for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Elizabeth Warren wrote an op-ed for the Miami Herald before the holidays about how the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could have prevented all the fraud and abuse in the mortgage lending...
View ArticleConsumer Financial Protection Bureau Lanches Web Site
The CFPB just launched an amazing Web site, ConsumerFinance.gov, designed to educate and gather feedback from American consumers. It’s user-friendly, dynamic, easy to understand, and provides a...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren Talks Attacks to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on...
Check out Elizabeth Warren on last night’s episode of The Daily Show talking attacks to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was a key piece of the financial reform law passed last year. The...
View ArticleRachel Maddow Breaks Down the Danger of Obstruction to a CFPB Head
Check out this great segment from Rachel Maddow, where she explains how obstruction in the Senate to keep anyone from running the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is incredibly dangerous. I...
View ArticleCivil Rights News: Mobile Phone Consumer Protection; Bilingual Voting...
Wireless Users Will Get Alerts on Excess Use By Edward Wyatt, New York Times The FCC reached an agreement on a consumer protection initiative requiring mobile phone companies to alert users when...
View ArticleTired of Banks Picking Your Pockets with Debit Card Fees?
In a recent New York Times “Room for Debate” column, Wade Henderson, president and C.E.O. of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Michael Calhoun, president of the Center for...
View ArticleCivil Rights News: U.S. Lacks Class Mobility; Consumer Financial Protection...
Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs Jason DeParle, New York Times It is becoming increasingly well-documented that there is less social mobility in the United States than other industrialized...
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