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	<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org</link>
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		<title>Small Business Owners Call on U.S. Chamber to Reveal Funders of Ads Attacking Financial Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release:
March 17, 2010

SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS CALL ON U.S. CHAMBER TO REVEAL FUNDERS OF ADS ATTACKING FINANCIAL REFORM
Small business owners available for comment 

Washington, DC – Immediately after Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd ...]]></description>
		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/small-business-owners-call-on-u-s-chamber-to-reveal-funders-of-ads-attacking-financial-reform/</link>
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		<title>Springfield Says &#8220;No&#8221; to Payday Loans</title>
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[Springfield, MO] – Local advocates and consumers gathered outside Advance America, 1773 S Glenstone today, Wednesday, March 17, to protest financial abuses by payday loan companies. Advance America is the nation’s largest payday lender and is actively ...]]></description>
		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/springfield-says-no-to-payday-loans/</link>
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		<title>Heather McGee Interviewed About Financial Reform and the Fed on CNBC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heather McGhee, the Director of the Washington office of Demos and a member of Americans for Financial Reform, was interviewed on CNBC this morning about Senator Dodd&#8217;s financial reform proposal.  The segment below focuses on ...]]></description>
		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/heather-mcgee-interviewed-about-financial-reform-on-cnbc/</link>
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		<title>American Bankers Association – How Wrong Can They Be?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release
March 17, 2010
 
ABA’s Account: The subprime mortgage market collapse does “not warrant a fundamental overhaul of the basic regulatory structure. Banking regulators&#8230; have since responded in a coordinated and measured way to ...]]></description>
		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/american-bankers-association-%e2%80%93-how-wrong-can-they-be/</link>
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		<title>National People&#8217;s Action, Senator Durbin Release Devastating Chicago Foreclosure Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[National People&#8217;s Action released the 2009 Chicago Foreclosure report with Senator Durbin yesterday.  The report, written by NPA Research Analyst Nick Bianchi, shows that 2009 was the worst year ever for foreclosures in Chicago, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/national-peoples-action-senator-durbin-release-devastating-chicago-foreclosure-report/</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010&#8243;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington, DC &#8211; Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition of over 200 groups, released the following statement today on Chairman Dodd’s financial reform legislation:
Heather Booth, Executive Director, Americans for Financial Reform: &#8220;We applaud Chairman Dodd ...]]></description>
		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/afr-statement-on-chairman-dodd%e2%80%99s-financial-reform-bill/</link>
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		<title>Leading Financial Reform Campaign To Respond To Dodd Proposal On 5pm Press Call</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At 5pm today, Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition of more than 250 groups fighting for strong financial reform, will hold a press call in response to Chairman Dodd’s financial reform proposal.
On the call will ...]]></description>
		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/leading-financial-reform-campaign-to-respond-to-dodd-proposal-on-5pm-press-call/</link>
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		<title>Huffington Post: The Two Rules of Real Financial Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fight Club fans take note!  AFR Executive Director Heather Booth wrote up the rules of real financial reform for the Huffington Post.  Here are first few:
The first rule of real financial reform is that you ...]]></description>
		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/huffington-post-the-two-rules-of-real-financial-reform/</link>
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		<title>CFPA and Nonbanks: A Snapshot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friends at the National Consumer Law Center have put together a great two-page report on the dire need for federal regulation of non-bank lenders.  The report focuses on the problems created by the current ...]]></description>
		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/cfpa-and-nonbanks-a-snapshot/</link>
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		<title>Jeff Gelles on Why We Need an Independent CFPA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Columnist Jeff Gelles recently wrote this piece about the importance of creating an independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA).  He focuses on the way current regulators, specifically the OCC, failed to do anything to effectively ...]]></description>
		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/jeff-gelles-on-why-we-need-an-independent-cfpa/</link>
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