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Initial recommendations include calls for California colleges to end use of enrollment holds that keep students from completing their college education, halt use of state tax refund offset and increase transparency.
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Northeastern Pennsylvania community members gathered at “The Affordable Coffee Press,” a panel discussion featuring stories and Pennsylvania data about the growing affordability crisis.
Urgent call to conduct oversight comes as borrowers face massive payment spikes and system chaos amidst worsening affordability crisis.
A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general step in after a credit acceptance corporation received a corporate pardon from the Trump Administration.
New policy memo from former CFPB Supervision Chief outlines path to modernize state oversight of regulated financial firms.
Report comes as state-based private lending industry ramps up efforts to weaken transparency and bypass anti-corruption rules set by Congress to protect students.
Education officials quietly lock public service workers into extra student loan payments, cite unspecified “errors” to justify broken promises.
Today, the Trump Administration announced it would break with more than a decade of precedent and suppress the publication of information submitted to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from Americans about problems they encounter across the financial marketplace.
Measure helps schools promote state-backed private lenders with long history of scandals and aggressive debt collection practices, without ensuring the products are in best interest of students.
Credit panel analysis finds monthly utility bills reach record highs, with 10 states seeing bills jump over 20% under Trump; Average overdue utility balance climbs to over $800, a 8.2% increase.