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Statement: Trump’s DOJ Lets RealPage Off the Hook for Driving Up Rents
As millions of US families approach the Thanksgiving holiday weekend struggling to afford sky-high housing prices while putting food on the table, the Trump DOJ appears to have granted RealPage and its private equity owner a generous holiday gift.
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12/8 – Stop Funding Billionaires Webinar
Billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and their companies Tesla and Palantir have huge investments from our pension funds. They’re using our money to attack our communities, destroy our jobs and steal our democracy—and they’re driving the kidnapping and deportation of immigrant families today. Our retirement funds and endowments should not be used against us and our communities. Labor leaders, community activists and pension experts are co-hosting a webinar on December 8th to share strategies for how we can fight back. We’ll dig in on examples such as the Chicago Teachers’ Union’s Resolution For A Pension Fund that Provides…
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Rising Property Insurance Premiums: The Uneven Risks to Household and Systemic Financial Stability
Introduction Property insurance is growing more expensive and harder to obtain throughout the U.S. Climate change and the rising costs of severe weather damage are a crucial cause, but racial and economic inequities within the property insurance market are an important part of the puzzle, and they have been too frequently overlooked. In particular, recent
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Law360: Zillow’s Climate Score Removal Sparks Insurance Concerns
“I would love to see more data from the Federal Insurance Office,” said Caroline Nagy, an affordable housing expert with progressive policy group Americans for Financial Reform, in an interview.
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Congressman Dan Goldman: Rep. Dan Goldman Introduces New Tax On Wealthiest Americans Generating An Estimated $276 Billion In Revenue
Oscar Valdés Viera, Private Equity and Capital Markets Policy Analyst at Americans for Financial Reform, said, “Our tax code shouldn’t reward wealth over work or give billionaires a menu of legal tricks to avoid paying their fair share. Working people pay more as their paychecks increase, but billionaires can live off untaxed borrowings to sidestep…
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Rolling Stone: Crypto Won Big in 2024. AI Is Angling to Do the Same in 2026
Cryptocurrency expert Mark Hays of Americans for Financial Reform says that attempts to split the difference rarely work. “Some policymakers seem to think that they can have it both ways by conceding to industry interests in return for political support, while saying they also want to protect the public interest. … It’s a shaky bet…
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Fact Sheet: CLARITY Act Worse than Last Year’s FIT 21 Crypto Deregulation
From Bad to WorseKey Differences Between Crypto-Backed CLARITY Act and FIT 21 Deregulation Click here for a PDF of this document. This year’s crypto market structure legislation promoted by the industry shares many of the flaws of last year’s crypto legislation, but the deregulatory elements in the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 (H.R.
