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Statement: Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund Decries DOJ’s Attack on the Southern Poverty Law Center:
The SPLC is being targeted because it fights for civil rights and wins. The administration wants this to be a message to all of us who work to secure the basic dignity of all people. It wants to silence us. It wants to intimidate us. It fails to understand, however, that we know we are stronger together. We will stand in each other’s defense. We will not be silent.
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Statement: AFR Statement Decrying the Trump CFPB Gutting of the Farm and Small Business Fair Lending Disclosure Rule
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a final rule that will delay and severely undermine the farm and small business fair lending disclosure rule that will let unfair and discriminatory lending practices persist for years.
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Press Release: “Dreams Denied” in North Carolina: New Study Finds Troubling Pattern of Racial Disparities in Wells Fargo’s Mortgage Lending
Wells Fargo’s mortgage lending patterns demonstrate significant racial disparities in Charlotte and across North Carolina, according to a new report released by Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, North Carolina United Power for Action/NC Industrial Areas Foundation, Organized Power in Numbers, and UNITE HERE North Carolina.