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More Proof Betsy DeVos Was Wrong To Restore Troubled Accreditor ACICS
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is now under enormous pressure to cut off ACICS’ federal recognition and prevent any more students from taking on mountains of debt based on shoddy accreditation standards.
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Trump Fed Pick Judy Shelton Shares Extreme Monetary Policy Views With Her Good Friend, Stephen Moore
Shelton’s expected nomination is ‘Stephen Moore 2.0’ in light of her long-time working relationship with extremist Moore and her similarly fringe views on monetary policy like returning to the gold standard.
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DeVos Rebuffed by Congress on Borrower Defense Rollback
In a win for students and taxpayers alike, today the U.S. House passed a key resolution to overturn the Trump-DeVos Education Department’s rule gutting student borrower protections.
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What a Joke: Kraninger Taps a Corporate Shill to Lead New Consumer Financial ‘Taskforce’
Kraninger announced corporate consultant extraordinaire Todd Zywicki as the Chairman of her newly formed ‘Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law’ despite his record deriding the Bureau as a “tragic failure”
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Rated “Mostly True” : DeVos the “most unpopular person in our government”
No level of dissatisfaction from student borrowers will ever convince the Secretary to consider their needs before the bottom line of the for-profit college and loan servicer industries.
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Allied Progress’ Year-in-Review: The Trump Administration Embraces the Shadiest Industries
For predatory lenders, pushy debt collectors, fly-by-night for-profit colleges, and greedy Wall Street banks, 2019 has been a banner year under the Trump administration.
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DeVos On Defensive for Plan to Shortchange Defrauded Student Borrowers
Secretary DeVos is working to keep problematic accreditors in business while allowing anyone off the street to become one.
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A Year Later, Trump CFPB Director Kraninger Has Proven as Useful to Greedy Industries as Mulvaney
A sobering new report marks CFPB Director Kraninger’s first full year on the job. Learn how she’s systematically sold out consumers to Trump’s industry donors, especially predatory lenders.
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Troubled For-Profit College Accreditor That DeVos Saved Still Flouting Rules
Ongoing problems at the ACICS hasn’t prevented DeVos from restoring it’s federal recognition, thus subjecting more students to more worthless debt.
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Kraninger Will Soon Decide Between Another Giveaway to Predatory Lenders, or Protecting Consumers
Trump’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Kathy Kraninger will soon make a critical choice.