2025 Funding Act Permanently Eliminates Lifeline for Certain Consumer-Taxpayers

By: Sophia Huang With tax season now underway, the impacts on consumer-taxpayers of the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which became law last year, are becoming apparent. The law’s…

FAIR Act would help to restore justice

Congressman Hank Johnson (Ga.) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) this month reintroduced the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act to ban forced arbitration in consumer, employment, civil rights, and antitrust…

CFPB walks back protections on terms and conditions in financial services

By Christine Hines, senior policy director, National Association of Consumer Advocates The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has long kept a watchful eye on terms and conditions that accompany financial products…

Bills threaten to disrupt, defang consumer protection agency (Part II)

By Sophia Huang, Advocacy & Outreach Associate As discussed in Part I, a slate of recently introduced bills seek to alter the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)…

Bills threaten to disrupt, defang consumer protection agency (Part I)

By Sophia Huang, Advocacy & Outreach Associate As the budget reconciliation process begins, the future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is once again in jeopardy. The CFPB, created…

Gutting CFPB Risks Financial-Crisis Like Harm

Over the past 54 days, the Trump administration and congressional Republicans have been executing an often-unlawful all-out assault on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the only federal agency whose…

Caring About Consumers Means Caring About the Courts

We know that life shouldn’t be this hard. Consumers and their advocates fight for effective policies that address the many challenges they face in their daily lives. Unfortunately, our efforts…

Pennsylvania’s Highest Court Supports Award of All Available Consumer Remedies in UDAAP, Fraud Case

  Pennsylvania consumers just won a remarkable victory when the state’s highest court confirmed that they have the right to recover all available remedies, including punitive damages and statutory treble…

Being Poor Means Paying More: Understanding low-income lives to design public policies that work for consumers

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