Building Power with Popular Education
Popular education is essential to building an equitable future — especially for base-building organizations.
Petition to the SEC: 16k Petitioners Urge SEC to Require Climate Risk and Carbon Emissions Disclosure
Americans for Financial Reform delivered 16,658 petition signatures calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to make it mandatory for large companies and banks to disclose their total greenhouse gas emissions, including financed emissions, to investors and the public.
Letters to Congress: Letter in Support of the Economic Continuity and Stability Act
AFR joined NCLC and SBPC in a letter to Congress in support of the Economic Continuity and Stability Act, which would facilitate the credit industry’s smooth transition from the LIBOR index.
Letters to Congress: Letter in Support of Housing Survivors of Major Disasters Act
AFR joined a letter in support of H.R.3037, the Housing Survivors of Major Disasters Act.
Letters to Regulators: Letter to Treasury to Halt Government Seizure of CTC, EITC and Social Security
AFR joined a letter to Treasury expressing concern that their practice of reducing or eliminating payments made in tax refunds to low-income families undermines the social safety net and threatens to push millions of children into poverty.
Testimony: Elyse Hicks, AFREF’s Consumer Policy Counsel, Testifies at ED’s Negotiated Rulemaking
AFREF’s Consumer Policy Counsel Elyse Hicks testified at the Education Department’s negotiated rulemaking.
Letters to Regulators: Comment Letter on DOJ’s Consideration of Whether to Strengthen the 1995 Bank Merger Competitive Review
AFREF sent a letter commenting on the U.S. Department of Justice’s consideration of whether to strengthen the 1995 Bank Merger Competitive Review.
Fact Sheet: Summary of SEC’s Private Funds Proposals
AFREF released a fact sheet summarizing the SEC’s two sets of rule proposals that will
provide investors and regulators with greater transparency into several aspects of the $18 trillion private fund industry.
Letters to Regulators: 100+ Organizations Urge Biden Administration to Aid Millions of Student Loan Borrowers with Overdue Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) Reforms
AFREF joined over 100 organizations in a letter urging the Department of Education to implement Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) reforms through the creation of an IDR waiver.
News Release: SEC Private Funds Plan Will Protect Worker Investments and Promote Fair Markets
Today’s proposal from the Securities and Exchange Commission is a key step in bringing much-needed transparency for investors and accountability in the vast private funds market. The reforms it proposes would give pension funds that invest workers and retiree savings much more information, allowing them to better protect hard-earned dollars.