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Press Release: Statement to the Next California Insurance Commissioner: Fully Restore The Consumer Intervenor Program
In response to California’s recent rollback of the insurance consumer intervenor program, organizations representing over 500,000 Californians and the former California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones released a statement calling on the next California Insurance Commissioner to swiftly and fully restore…
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A Model Built to Mislead: Why the CEA’s Stablecoin Analysis was Rigged
The CEA’s analysis was quickly embraced by the crypto industry as evidence that such restrictions are unnecessary. If limiting yield has little impact on bank lending, the argument goes, then policymakers should allow stablecoins — and the platforms that distribute them — to compete freely on returns. But that framing depends entirely on the assumptions…
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Cointelegraph: Crypto’s CLARITY Act faces partisan fight over ethics on Senate floor
Progressive groups have called on lawmakers to address these concerns. A group of organizations including Americans for Financial Reform, Demand Progress Action, Indivisible and Public Citizen wrote a letter on May 8.
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Medium: The Power: Let’s Talk Voting & Economic Rights
The housing market is an area of the economy well known for divergent outcomes for Black and White Americans. Recently, research done by Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund found that Wells Fargo denied mortgages to Black and Latino Americans at twice the rate for White Americans. Americans of color are also more likely to…
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The Carolinian Newspaper: A Troubling Pattern of Racial Disparities In Wells Fargo’s Mortgage Lending
Charlotte, NC – 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. The study analyzed nearly 25,000 North…
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Fact Sheet: AFR and Protect Borrowers Fact Sheet on Senate Effort to Roll Back Attacks on CFPB
In 2025, the Trump-Vought CFPB rescinded 67 policies designed to protect consumers from unfair practices like lending discrimination, harassment in debt collection tactics, and surprise junk fees—and to help families access affordable credit. In the midst of a growing affordability crisis where people are already struggling to keep up with rising costs and growing debt,…
