Coalition Efforts
Consumer Protection
- Advocates applaud the Fed’s faster payments system, but urge fraud protection
- FAA evacuation tests could lead to unsafe and inhumane airline seating
- HUD’s attack on core civil rights tool opens the door for discrimination
- A new bill aimed at helping students lacks robust borrower protections
- Further cuts to Pell will put college out of reach for many low-income families
- New proposed rule empowers debt collects and their attorneys
- Healthcare mergers result in less choice and higher prescription drug prices for consumers
- Revamping the CFPB’s “Qualified Mortgage” standard could impact credit availability
- Consumer Action joins the Ban Facial Recognition Campaign
- Vehicle owners should have control over their vehicle’s data
- The never-ending scourge of unwanted calls continues to plague Americans
- Equifax data breach demonstrates the need for stronger cybersecurity regulation
- New College Affordability Coalition releases new principles for the Higher Education Act
- It’s time for swift action on robocalls
- DeVos clears the way for more fraudulent schools at taxpayers’ expense
- Overhauling the nation’s broken credit reporting system
- Don’t water down banks’ overdraft opt-in rule
- Robocall madness: It’s time to stop the scams and abuse
- New Jersey steps up to protect investors from predatory products and advice
- Opposition to commercial driver labor standards puts California workers and drivers at risk
- California to lead the effort to protect student loan borrowers
- Stop the onslaught of annoying robocalls
- Flawed HUD report lets Bank of America off the hook for possible lending violations
- Personal data has potential to fuel discrimination
- ED’s staffing shortage creates problems for struggling borrowers
- Is Mercedes-Benz cheating us out of clean air?
- Arbitration in America hurts consumers
- PROTECT students from predatory for-profit schools
- It’s time for Wall Street traders to pay their fair share
- Forced arbitration silences victims and should end
- Consumers need stronger credit reporting protections
- Americans are ready for comprehensive reform to lower prescription drug prices
- Advocates tackle data-driven discrimination
- The CREATES Act protects patients from outrageous prescription drug costs
- Protect consumers, not pyramid-scheme businesses
- How the government shutdown puts working families at risk
- The time is now for comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation
- Department of Education urged to extend loan discharge period for scammed students
- More could be done by the CFPB to stop harassment from debt collectors
- Trump wants to use credit scores to keep immigrants out of the country
- Kathy Kraninger is shockingly unqualified to lead the CFPB
- Groups renew call for no poison pill policy riders
- Advocates set the bar for upcoming discussion on privacy legislation
- National comparison data for colleges erased
- Strong, meaningful, and comprehensive privacy principles are needed to protect consumers
- Hands off the Medicare donut hole deal
- Trump administration to roll back fuel efficiency requirements
- A major victory for cheated students on borrower defense regulations
- Consumer advocates oppose loosening rules for FinTech providers
- Trump’s anti-discrimination official uses hate speech as recent as 2016
- The FCC can do more to stop annoying, and illegal, robocalls
- Advocates warn that HUD’s disaster relief program is too limited in scope
- ED’s latest regulatory rollback favors scam schools over students and taxpayers
- Protect consumers from excessive airline fees
- Senate should reject Kraninger for CFPB Director
- It’s buyer beware with the SEC’s latest best interest proposal
- Payday alternative loans shouldn’t permit cycle of high-cost debt
- 3M seniors could lose critical benefits if Benchmark Cap remains in Medicare Advantage
- “License to Kill” bills in New Jersey are as terrifying for consumers as they sound
- Health insurance tax would hit seniors hard
- The CFPB’s consumer education programs must be protected
- Keep for-profit school dollars out of the VA
- Advocates tell Santander: stop racial profiling in auto lending
- Groups tell temporary CFPB director: Hands off the public database!
- If companies can protect user data in Europe, they can protect it everywhere
- Modernizing Medicare education tools empowers seniors
- FHFA announces major upgrades to mortgage application process for LEP borrowers
- Consumer groups stand up to threats to take complaint database dark
- Border wall funding is a waste of taxpayer dollars
- Last-ditch effort to prevent auto lending discrimination fails
- Facebook’s facial recognition violates consumers’ privacy
- Transparency lacking in California arbitration proceedings
- Personal data of 50M Facebook users wrongly harvested for use in 2016 election
- Advocates alarmed as HUD considers dropping key mission
- 10 years after Great Recession, Senate considers Dodd-Frank rollbacks
- Stringent safety requirements needed before driverless cars hit the road
- PROSPER Act puts for-profit schools’ interests ahead of students and taxpayers
- Bill would block competition and choice in the contact lens market in Kentucky
- Protect employees by ending forced arbitration in the workplace
- SAFE Lending Act protects working families from cycle of debt
- Congress to gut key provision of Americans with Disabilities Act
- Policy riders are a shady attempt at regulating CFPB
- Bill would set back consumer rights in debt collection
- Aviation and passenger advocates oppose air traffic control privatization
- Third-party ticket websites may be harming consumers
- Save retirement rule, advocacy groups urge lawmakers
- Do not delay or revise 2016 nursing home protections
- Credit unions must follow robocall/text consent laws
- Consumer advocates keep the heat on multi-level marketing
- Forests bill tramples access to justice
- Consumers deserve more control over their credit reports
- Bill would damage credit scores of million of consumers
- Updates needed to protect servicemembers from debt collectors
- Do not let government agencies weaken consumer protections
- Who, or what, is spying on you at home?
- Advocates call on Congress do more for victims of Equifax breach
- Secretary DeVos called on to protect student loan borrowers of color
- Pell Grants remain in jeopardy, impacting vulnerable low-income students
- Enough with the sneaky and harmful policy riders
- Fiduciary rule should extend to non-retirement accounts too
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