Joint Letter: Letter to CRAs urging credit relief for federal workers impacted by government shutdown
Letter to CRAs urging them to take steps to protect the credit reports of federal workers affected by the government shutdown
Report Category: Policy & Analysis
AFR Education Fund, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Paper: Reforming Bank Governance: Top-Down Reform and Bank Resistance
AFR/CRL Polling Memo: Majority of American Voters in Both Parties See “Crisis” In Student Debt Load
A new polling memo from Americans for Financial Reform and the Center for Responsible Lending documents the widespread agreement among American voters that the student debt burden, now at $1.5 trillion, is a crisis.
AFR/CFA Memo: SEC Broker Standards Proposal Falls Far Short
Brokers too often steer investors into poorly performing, high-cost investments that are profitable for the broker, but bad for individual investors. The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a new regulation that purports to address the problem, but its remedy is too vague and too weak. By creating a veneer of protection, but not the reality, it would deliver a false sense of security that could leave investors worse off than they are now.
AFR/CRL Poll Shows Wide Discontent With Mulvaney Path at CFPB
Voters of all political parties overwhelmingly oppose the actions taken by Mick Mulvaney to undermine the mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and feel a strong connection between lax enforcement of the rules on Wall Street and their daily welfare. Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis brought on a searing recession, the survey revealed enduring, strong, and bipartisan support for tougher regulation of Wall Street and predatory lenders.