Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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A Year of COVID-19 Brought Record Consumer Debt and Collection Complaints
After more than a year of COVID-19, the nation’s collective ability to cope with dual public health and economic crises…
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CFPB Gives a Green Light to Predatory Payday Lenders
As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc throughout the country, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently took an ill-advised and untimely…
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Supreme Court Decision Jeopardizes CFPB’s Future and its Independence
A June 29 U.S. Supreme Court split decision represents a major setback to both the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and…
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Fair Credit Denials Limit Wealth-Building for Black Consumers, Businesses
For much of Black America, access to fair and responsible credit has been an elusive promise.
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Voters Prefer Payday Lending Protection, Regulators Seek Less
A bold effort to benefit business and commerce focuses on growing customers while taking the teeth out of consumer protection…
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Housing Discrimination Complaints Reach 24-Year High, While HUD Rolls Back Fair Housing Rules
New research by the National Fair Housing Alliance finds that as fair lending laws have not been aggressively enforced, a…
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Student Debt Problems on Rise, Poll Shows
If you're drowning in student debt, your education is working against you — instead of for you. It's time for…
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Debt Collectors Target Consumers of Color, People Making Less than $50K
Government is supposed to be "for the people" — not for corporations.
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102 House Members Rebuke Delay of Payday Loan Rule
Anyone who struggles with the rising costs of living knows all too well how hard it is to try stretching…
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Time for CFPB to ‘Do the Right Thing’ and Enact Payday Loan Rules
The CFPB has functioned more recently to help predatory lenders than to fulfill its statutory mission of consumer protection.
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