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Dodd-Frank Turns 10: Trump Administration’s Fair Lending Failures Underscore Need to Strengthen Law
On the ten-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, consumer watchdog group Allied Progress released a report spotlighting how the Trump administration has worked to undermine fair lending protections and — as the recent PPP program showed — how much work there is left to do to make our financial system accessible to all.
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Predatory Lenders Profiting Off Struggling Families During Recession, A Reminder Why CFPB Shouldn’t Gut Payday Protections
While over 20 million Americans have lost their jobs amid a worsening recession, the payday loan industry appears to be thriving as it skirts state usury protections to target vulnerable families online with triple-digit interest rates.
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What Pandemic? Trump CFPB Director Kraninger Readies Rules Enriching Trump’s Payday Lending Donors
Not even a pandemic and looming recession can keep Director Kraninger from empowering predatory lenders to rip off vulnerable consumers.
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Airline CEOs Suggest Salary Cuts a Shared Sacrifice with Unpaid Workers, Neglect to Mention It’s Only Fraction of Their Annual Compensation
Airline CEOs that want plaudits for taking a salary cut neglect to mention their salaries only make up a fraction of their annual compensation.
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Where Is Eugene Scalia? Trump Labor Secretary Ignores Worker Struggles During COVID-19 Crisis
After a staggering ten million Americans joined the unemployment ranks in two weeks’ time, Trump Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia has been conspicuously absent from the national response.
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Senators Working To Give Foreign Cruise Ships A Taxpayer Bailout
The cruise industry is based overseas and does everything they can to avoid paying American taxes, but now they have the gall to come to the American people and ask for a bailout?
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Amid Coronavirus Crisis, CFPB and Fellow Trump Financial Regulators Open Door For Banks to Get Into Predatory Lending Game
The Trump administration should not view this crisis as an opportunity for wealthy special interests to cash in.
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Trump’s Urge To Reopen Economy Conveniently Timed With Trump Hotel Shutdowns
During this crisis, Americans need to know that President Trump has health and safety at the top of his priorities list.
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Trump Listening to Right-Wing Trolls Over Dr. Fauci
The President should listen to the medical experts first in a public health emergency and drown out the noise from people who make a living trafficking in fear and division.
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Latest COVID19 Senate Bill Could Hide Bailout Recipients For Six Months
Provisions in the latest draft of the Senate’s COVID-19 stimulus package appears to allow the Trump administration to wait up to six months before informing the public which businesses received taxpayer dollars as loans and grants.