By Charlene Crowell Senior Fellow with the Center for Responsible Lending For the foreseeable future, ‘normal’ life will be indefinitely suspended due to the global pandemic known as the coronavirus. Record-breaking employment layoffs in the month of March resulted in the Department of Labor reporting that 10.4 million consumers lost their jobs and filed for… [Read More]
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COVID-19 financial warning: Consumers and banks should stay away from Payday Loan Stores
April 9, 2020White House budget proposal cuts $8.6 billion from HUD
February 20, 2020Programs serving low-and-moderate income consumers to end or suffer severe cuts By Charlene Crowell Once again, the White House Budget Proposal slashes funding and programs that many low-and moderate-income consumers rely upon. From higher education to a repeated attack to deny the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau its full funding and financial independence from the annual… [Read More]