FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 16, 2021 National Consumer Law Center Analysis Finds Huge Increase in Number of Small Business and Residential Customers at Risk of Termination Download the report at: http://bit.ly/covid-util-arrearages Boston – The COVID-19 crisis put millions of Americans in financial peril, hitting households of color particularly hard. In response, moratoriums on utility shut…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 11, 2021 Download the report at: http://bit.ly/2021-tax-season Boston ― Tax season kicks off on February 12, several weeks later than usual. Today, the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) issued its annual advisory on taxpayer consumer protection issues and warned that consumers need to be on guard as they navigate the tax…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 11, 2021 Livestream the House Judiciary hearing on Forced Arbitration on Feb. 11 at 10am here. Washington, D.C. – Robinhood may be able to thwart access to the courts for customers harmed in the recent GameStop incident. By inserting a “forced arbitration” clause in its contract, Robinhood took away a right…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FEBRUARY 5, 2021 Housing and Civil Rights Groups Call for Homeowner Assistance Fund to Avoid New Wave of Foreclosures and Devastating Effects for Communities of Color Today, leading housing and civil rights groups applauded Senator Jack Reed’s reintroduction of the Homeowner Assistance Fund bill as Congress and the Biden administration consider the…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 26, 2021 Washington, D.C. — Today, leading civil rights groups commended President Joe Biden for taking action to advance racial equity for Americans in the first days of his term. The civil rights community asked the Biden-Harris Administration to take this critical step — to name racial justice as a key pillar of…
January 15, 2021 By Richard Dubois, Executive Director Washington, D.C.- In his iconic speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. urgently appealed to his fellow Americans to make real the promise of democracy. The decades-long campaign by activists for racial justice culminated with…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 14, 2021 Download the full report, a map, charts on state student protection funds (SPFs), and a SPF evaluation checklist for advocates and legislators at: http://bit.ly/state-tuition-fraud-info Boston – When a college education is cut short by a school closure or a school engages in fraud, the students and their families suffer…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 14, 2021 New Rule Hinders Improvements for Energy Efficiency Standards for Major Residential Gas Appliances Washington, D.C. — Consumer Federation of America and the National Consumer Law Center expressed great disappointment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) last-minute approval of an anti-consumer rule that effectively keeps inefficient gas furnaces, water…
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The National Consumer Law Center is sad to announce the passing of John Andrew (Andy) Spanogle, Jr. on December 18, 2020 on his 86th birthday. Andy was a longstanding consumer advocate, NCLC Partners Council member, and co-chair of NCLC’s Campaign for the Future. Throughout his remarkable life, Andy was a fierce advocate for consumers: as…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 11, 2020 Action Center on Race and the Economy, American Federation of Teachers, Americans for Financial Reform, the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), the Center for Responsible Lending, NAACP, National Consumer Law Center (on behalf of its low-income clients), Student Debt Crisis, and Young Invincibles made the following statement: …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 4, 2021 Washington, D.C. – On December 30, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission issued an order that will significantly reduce invasive and unwanted calls made with a prerecorded or artificial voice to landline phones. The changes, effective June 30, 2021, are made through new rules which will be fully enforceable under…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 22, 2020 Advocates argue that the OCC letter issued late Friday will not save the OCC rule that facilitates usurious loans with interest rates that are higher than what state laws allow WASHINGTON, D.C. – Several civil rights and consumer groups filed an amicus brief in support of the attorneys general…
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