FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DATE: July 15, 2010
Washington, DC – Americans for Financial Reform, an unprecedented coalition of more than 250 national and state organizations who have spent the past year fighting for Financial Reform …

Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition of over 250 consumer, employee, investor, community and civil rights groups, released the following statement on the President’s speech today in New York:
Heather Booth, Director, Americans for Financial Reform: …

Last night in his State of the Union address, President Obama reinforced his ambitious agenda to fix the economy and enact financial reform, including measures to hold Big Banks accountable for their reckless actions that …

In an editorial titled “Opposite of Bold,” the New York Times endorsed the Obama Administration’s proposal to levy a Financial Transaction Tax on banks:

Mr. Obama also must … embrace ways to pay for initiatives, such …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: January 27, 2010

Financial Reform Needed To Set the Country on the Road to Recovery

Latest NBC/WSJ Poll says Americans want stronger regulations to rein in Big Banks: “Nearly three-quarters say that …

Washington, DC – Americans for Financial Reform released the following statement about President Obama’s proposal to limit the size and investments of big banks.
Heather Booth, Executive Director, Americans for Financial Reform: “Today the President …