Chicago Showdown It was a Showdown in Chicago! Organized by National People’s Action, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and a coalition of organizations from across the nation, thousands of people fed-up with outrageous bank fees, sky-rocketing credit card interest rates, and a shameful national foreclosure
DATE: November 10, 2009 Heather Booth, Director, Americans for Financial Reform: “Americans for Financial Reform (AFR), and our over 200 coalition partners, thank Senator Cantwell for introducing legislation today to close the derivatives loophole. Senator Cantwell calls the derivatives “a sophisticated form of gambling,” with
Chairman Dodd introduces legislation that sets us on a path to rein in Wall Street, put in protections for Main Street and work to ensure the big banks can not bring our economy to brink of collapse again DATE: November 10, 2009 AFR Applauds Chairman
By NICOLE GAUDIANO • News Journal Washington Bureau • November 5, 2009 WASHINGTON — Rep. Mike Castle tried but failed Wednesday to put the brakes on consumer-friendly credit card reforms that most House members thought should be enforced sooner than originally planned.
By Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal November 06, 2009, 4:00PM Members of New Jersey Citizen Action picketed in Jersey City outside the Exchange Place offices of AIG today protesting bonuses already paid and those promised to workers at the company that was central to the financial
The financial crisis has affected us all — but some groups have been hurt more than others. Find out more by reading these brief reports and learn how a comprehensive regulatory system will promote financial stability and protect all of us from unfair practices that
Watch now! You want credit reform? Try this credit reform, now with amazing mandatory offers and a credit company protection plan! Mark Fiore created this animation. The Wall Street Journal dubbed him “the undisputed guru of the form.” He creates political animation from an undisclosed
WASHINGTON – Using taxpayer funds to keep out-of-work homeowners in their homes until they find another job is an option being looked at by some officials in the Obama administration, according to people familiar with government financial-rescue programs.
Consumer Federation of America and Americans for Financial Reform Decry House Financial Services Committee Vote to Weaken Post-Enron Fraud Protections WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2009 –Today, Americans for Financial Reform and Consumer Federation of America released the following statement in response to the House Financial Services
The New York Times ran this prescient editorial in yesterday’s paper. Here’s an excerpt: Another day, another test of Congress’s will to reform the financial system. The Investor Protection Act of 2009, which faces final votes on Wednesday in the House Financial Services Committee, would