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Huffington Post: Next On The Chopping Block For House Republicans: Post-Crisis Bank Regulations
Allied Progress said the bill is so extreme it even erases protections that predate the financial crisis, allowing Wall Street and predatory lenders to once again prey on consumers without repercussion.
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Huffington Post: Donald Trump Literally Nominated The Goldman Sachs Bailout Lawyer To Run The SEC
The vote will instead serve a more symbolic purpose. If moderate Democrats can’t vote against Goldman’s bailout attorney, what Wall Street-friendly vote would they oppose?
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Huffington Post: Progressives Fight Trump Treasury Pick Using Tactics That Sunk Mitt Romney In 2012
A trio of progressive advocacy groups ― Allied Progress, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Demand Progress ― released a new ad on Wednesday urging voters to tell their senators to oppose Mnuchin because of his ties to the California bank OneWest, which he ran from 2009 to 2015.
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Huffington Post: Progressive Group Launches Ads Urging Senators To Oppose Trump’s Treasury Secretary
A progressive advocacy group focused on holding Wall Street accountable has launched the first major ad campaign since the presidential election, targeting President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Steven Mnuchin for Treasury secretary. The ads, released Wednesday by Allied Progress, urge Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Dean Heller (R-Nev.) to oppose the nomination of the multimillionaire hedge funder and former Goldman Sachs executive.
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Huffington Post: Hundreds Of Suspiciously Similar Letters Praise The Payday Loan Industry Ahead Of Crackdown
Hundreds of individually submitted comments to a federal regulator praising the payday loan industry contain identical phrases, like “It was a very efficient process and definitely the most reasonable option for me.”
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Huffington Post: DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz Is Taking A Ton Of Heat For Helping Payday Lenders
Allied Progress, an activist group headed by the longtime liberal operative Karl Frisch, is airing a new ad in Florida hammering Wasserman Schultz’s efforts to undermine the regulations.
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Huffington Post: New Project Seeks To Unmask Shadowy Payday Lenders
A new project seeking to expose some of the most secretive special interests in American politics launched on Wednesday. Its first targets: payday lenders, for-profit colleges and voter suppression groups.