With few legislative days remaining, Republicans in Congress attack consumer protections, not affordability

Closing loopholes in consumer debt protections

We examine legislation designed to strengthen the effectiveness of consumer debt protections. Our guest is Evan Denerstein.

With few legislative days remaining, Republicans in Congress attack consumer protections, not affordability

By Tom Feltner, Associate Director of Consumer Policy Less than two decades ago, a global financial and housing crisis stripped trillions of dollars of household wealth and pushed millions of families out of their homes. In response, Congress took a bold and long-overdue action to stop predatory and reckless lending practices that, until then, had gone unchecked and devastated millions of people’s financial well-being and the entire economy. As …