Ariel Nelson, Staff Attorney
Ariel Nelson is a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center focusing on credit and background reporting and criminal justice debt issues. She is a contributing author to NCLC’s Fair Credit Reporting and Collection Actions. Previously, Ariel litigated administrative and environmental law cases as a staff attorney/clinical teaching fellow at Georgetown University Law Center. She also served as [...]
Karen Lusson, Staff Attorney
Karen Lusson is a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, who focuses on energy and utility issues that affect low-income customers. Previously she was the assistant bureau chief in the Public Utilities Bureau of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office. Her duties included representing Illinois residential ratepayers in litigation involving utility rate increase requests, [...]
Privacy Archive
Big Data & Identity Errors Policy Analysis Policy Briefs, Reports & Press Releases Big Data: A Big Disappointment for Scoring Consumer Credit Risk, March 6, 2014 Broken Records: How Errors by Criminal Background Checking Companies Harm Workers and Businesses, April 2012 Automated Injustice: How a Mechanized Dispute System Frustrates Consumers Seeking to Fix Errors in [...]
Usury Archive
Policy Analysis Policy Briefs, Reports & Press Releases Misaligned Incentives: Why High-Rate Installment Lenders Want Borrowers Who Will Default, July 2016 Report: Installment Loans: Will States Protect Borrowers from a New Wave of Predatory Lending?, July 2015 Consumer Advocates Applaud DOD Move to Protect Troops from Predatory Lending, July 21, 2015 Report: Why 36%? The [...]
Employment Archive
Employer Use of Credit Reports and Background Checks Policy Analysis Policy Briefs, Reports & Press Releases Report: Rating State Government Payroll Cards, November 2015 Report: Broken Records: How Errors by Criminal Background Checking Companies Harm Workers and Businesses, April 2012 Press Release: New FTC Study Points to Much-Needed Reforms for Credit Reporting Industry, February, 2013 [...]
CFPB Debt Collection Rulemaking Archive
Debt Collection Rule Resources Issue Brief: Time Barred Debt Disclosures in CFPB's Supplemental Rulemaking Fall Short, May 2020 Issue Brief: Millions of Americans Have Limited or No Meaningful Access to the Internet, August 2019 Summary: CFPB Debt Collection Rule Must Protect Consumers, Not Abusive Collectors, May 2019 Potential Impact on Employers and Businesses of CFPB [...]
Criminal Justice Archive
Criminal Background Checks Comments to the Massachusetts Trial Court Public Access to Court Records Committee re: Criminal Cases and Internet Access to Docket Entries and Court Files, June 15, 2015 Report: Broken Records: How Errors by Criminal Background Checking Companies Harm Workers and Businesses, April 2012 Criminal Justice Debt Confronting Criminal Justice Debt: A Comprehensive [...]
Credit Discrimination Archive
Policy Analysis Policy Briefs, Reports and Press Releases Policy Brief: Past Imperfect: How Credit Scores and Other Analytics "Bake In" and Perpetuate Past Discrimination, May, 2016 Solving the Credit Conundrum: Helping Consumers' Credit Records Impaired by the Foreclosure Crisis and Great Recession, Dec. 2013 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Will Hold Auto Lenders Accountable for Discrimination [...]
FDIC’s New Mortgage Appraisal Rule Ignores Lessons of Great Recession
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 20, 2019 Contacts: National Consumer Law Center: Andrew Pizor (apizor@nclc.org) or Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org); (617) 542-8010 Mountain State Justice: Jennifer Wagner (jennifer@msjlaw.org) or (304) 326-0188 Washington, D.C. - After a vote today by the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC) Board of Directors, banks making home mortgages will no longer need to [...]
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