The company behind “We Buy Ugly Houses” trains its franchisees to zero in on homeowners’ desperation. In a video recorded discussion, NCLC’s Co-Director of Advocacy Sarah Bolling Mancini joins ProPublica to discuss the underregulated house flipping industry.
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Originally appearing in the Chicago Star on June 23, 2023, Andrew Adams discusses recent utility rate proposals with Karen Lusson. While gas utilities have included rate design proposals in their current rate cases, ComEd and Ameren will file electric rate design cases separately over the coming years, according to Lusson. The companies that have filed…
The Student Debt Crisis Center took over the airwaves of the Leslie Marshall Show on June 28, 2023 to provide analysis of the upcoming Supreme Court case that holds the fate of President Biden’s debt cancellation plan. This takeover episode includes special guests Abby Shafroth, Co-Director of Advocacy at the National Consumer Law Center and…
Originally airing on NPR on June 27, 2023, Bram Sable-Smith discusses state initiatives to cap or even ban certain interest charges on medical debt with Berneta Haynes. Haynes says policy initiatives should also focus on how to prevent medical debt in the first place. “Because once it [medical debt] happens, it seems like the situations…
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Originally appearing in the Los Angeles Times on June 30, 2023, Jon Healey discusses options for borrowers that can’t afford monthly payments with NCLC’s Abby Shafroth. The very last thing you want to do, Shafroth says, is default. So if you’re still in a bind after changing your repayment plan, she said, you have two…
Originally airing on Marketplace on July 2, 2023, Samantha Fields discusses the administrations plan to transition borrowers back into student loan repayment with Abby Shafroth. “Interest will be charged to borrowers accounts and … bills will be sent out. But if borrowers miss their payments, or there’s confusion, they pay the wrong amount … their credit…
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