Across the country more than 100 nonprofit organizations work to ensure that low wage working families are able to get a car in order to find and keep a job. These programs promote economic well being and job security by distributing cars directly to families, making low-interest loans for car purchases, and facilitating matched savings…
Appearing in The Guardian on Aug. 18, 2025, Hannah Harris Green interviews Caroline Cohn, staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, for coverage of two private-equity backed companies that have been accused of failing to protect inmates from risk of harm, and even preventable death. “When private healthcare companies receive a fixed fee per…
Appearing in CNBC Make It on Aug. 12, 2025, Kamaron McNair interviews Abby Shafroth, managing director of advocacy at the National Consumer Law Center for coverage of how student loan borrowers in default risk having their Social Security payments and tax refunds withheld or your wages garnished. “Borrowers who struggle to afford their payments [who…
Appearing in USA Today on Aug. 14, 2025, Susan Tompor talks to John Van Alst, senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center about how borrowers can save money and get the best financing for a vehicle purchase. About 75% of car buyers who finance cars and trucks do so at the dealership, said John…
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Appearing in ProPublica on Aug. 6, 2025, Joel Jacobs interviews Lauren Saunders, associate director of the National Consumer Law Center for coverage of the GOP efforts to cut funding to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, while continuing to send constituents to the agency for assistance. “Republicans don’t want to be abused by big corporations that…
Split Panel Decision Allows Hundreds of Positions to be Eliminated at Already Weakened CFPB, But May be Subject to Review by Full Court
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With New Rate, Illinois Commerce Commission Sets Gold Standard for Energy Affordability
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Consumer Advocates Celebrate Sen. Reed’s Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act, Ending the Sale of Prospective Homebuyers’ Contact Information.
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Appearing in ABC News on August 3, 2025, Mark Nichols, Tonya Simpson, Maia Rosenfeld , Jared Kofsky, and Tommy Brooksbank interviewed John Rao, senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, for coverage of proportionate property taxes and how data shows discrepancies in assessments — and therefore tax bills — affect some communities more than others. ABC’s analysis found that…
Appearing in the Associated Press on August 2, 2025, Cora Lewis interviews Kyra Taylor, staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, for coverage of how, according to estimates, millions of student borrowers could begin having their wages garnished as soon as this summer. “The most important thing borrowers can do before administrative wage garnishment…
Appearing in the Washington Post on July 30, 2025, Danielle Douglas-Gabriel interviews Kyra Taylor, staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center for coverage of how the Education Department will resume applying interest on loans being repaid through the Biden-era SAVE program. And in less than three years, the program will cease to exist, which…
Appearing in NPR and KFF Health News on July 25, 2025, Noam Levey interviews Chi Chi Wu, director of consumer reporting and data advocacy at the National Consumer Law Center for coverage of how, by paring back federal rules and programs designed to protect patients from the high cost of health care, the Trump administration…
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