Chi Chi Wu testifies before the Financial Technology Task Force of the US House Financial Services Committee on " Preserving the Right of Consumers to Access Personal Financial Data."
Despite their numerous and intractable problems, the Supreme Court provided an enormous get-out-of-jail-free pass to credit bureaus in a recent case, TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez. The Ramirez decision significantly impacts the ability of consumers to protect themselves and their financial reputations under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).
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The undersigned organizations are committed to ensuring access to high-quality postsecondary distance education and believe that one of the primary functions of state oversight of education, including distance education, is to protect students from predatory schools and programs that leave them with unmanageable debt and credentials and degrees of questionable quality. We appreciate the opportunity to provide comments on the 21st Century Guidelines for Distance Education (Guidelines), commissioned by the National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA) and developed by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS).
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Television segment: Last Week Tonight (21:50 runtime) “PACE Loans.” Background information provided to the producers by NCLC policy experts John Rao and Charlie Harak.
Table 2 of Collecting Criminal Justice Debt Through the State Civil Justice System.
Appendix B of Collection of Criminal Justice Debt Through the State Civil Justice System
Appendix A of Collecting Criminal Justice Debt Through the State Civil Justice System.
A primer for advocates and policy makers INTRODUCTION The use of the criminal justice system to collect fines, fees, restitution, and other types of criminal justice debt has been condemned as punitive, self-defeating, discriminatory, and, in some cases, unconstitutional. Would use of the existing civil justice system be a viable alternative? The criminal justice system’s…
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