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Eugene Scalia’s Workplace Safety Record Too Dangerous for the Labor Department
Scalia fundamentally disagrees that one of the Labor Department’s most important responsibilities is enforcing the laws that protect the health and safety of the nation’s workers.
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Consumers Would Have Saved Over $6B a Year Starting Today, Then Trump Happened
In payback to Trump’s predatory lending donors, the CFPB delayed a rule protecting vulnerable communities from the payday loan debt trap.
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Trump-Appointed, Banker-Heavy FDIC Board Votes to Gut Volcker Rule
The Trump administration is rolling back the clock to let big banks get away with the same casino-like behavior with their customers’ money that led to the financial crisis ten years ago.
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Only the Most Conflicted People: Kraninger Appoints Servicer Industry Insider to Be Next Student Loan Ombudsman
Kraninger recruited a student loan industry insider out of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, a servicer with a history of leaving students in the cold.
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Uncovered Emails Show Secretary DeVos Asks ‘How High’ When Student Loan Servicers Say ‘Jump’
An email from Navient’s CEO making demands for less oversight carries more weight with DeVos than tens of thousands of student borrower complaints about industry mistreatment.
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Kraninger Stands By Aide Paul Watkins Despite Past Work for Anti-LGBT Hate Group
CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger wrote a letter to Sen. Elizabeth Warren defending aide Paul Watkins, two days after reports that Watkins once worked for an SPLC-designated anti-LGBT hate group.
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Would Eugene Scalia Support Anti-LGBT Businesses As Labor Secretary?
In light of the Labor Department’s decision to condone anti-LGBT discrimination, Eugene Scalia must explain his views on LGBT rights.
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Patrick McHenry Praised as “Asset” for Being a Tool of Wall Street
Rep. McHenry’s eagerness to do Wall Street’s dirty work has been rewarded with nearly $400,000 from the financial industry in just the last six months.
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Mulvaney Complains He Would Have Moved CFPB to Cleveland But For the Law
Dialing Up the Smugness to an 11 Watch THIS CLIP [skip to 40:00] from former Acting CFPB Director and current White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney’s August 2nd speech at a South Carolina Republican Party event. Moments after celebrating that many USDA workers quit rather than relocate to the new Kansas offices – “what a wonderful…
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Eugene Scalia’s Corporate Client List Makes Him the Most Conflicted Labor Secretary Pick in Recent Memory
WASHINGTON, D.C. — For any corporation that has violated workers’ rights or defrauded consumers and is in need of legal representation, Eugene Scalia’s resume belongs at the top. It’s what he built a career on. It’s clearly what he’s good at. But it’s also his decades of experience as a high-powered attorney for corporate interests like Wal-Mart…