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70% of Consumers Struggle With Multiple Affordability Issues (opens the original)
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As the nation’s affordability crisis continues, a growing body of new research finds that rising gas and grocery costs are but two of many factors causing consumers’ financial stress. Moreover, today’s financial stress is deemed a function of both old and newer consumer concerns. Research from the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality exposes how 70 percent of all Americans struggle with multiple affordability issues like housing, food, health care, and childcare, according to its Fami
Consumers and States Awarded $694 Million After Predatory Auto Lender Settles Lawsuit (opens the original)
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An estimated 55,000 consumers will benefit from a $694 million class-action settlement against a predatory auto lender reached by attorneys general in 40 states and the District of Columbia. The settlement announced on Sept. 18 with Credit Acceptance Corporation (CAC), one of the nation’s largest subprime auto lenders, will provide the following financial relief for affected consumers: “CAC preyed on consumers in New York and across the nation with false promises of affordable loans, only to exp
Despite key courtroom fair housing victories, HUD seeks more cuts (opens the original)
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Despite getting slapped down by three courts over this summer, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) still plans to continue its efforts to hobble fair housing investigations and enforcement. In late August, a federal judge warned that Congress – not federal agencies – authorizes and appropriates funding for programs and operations. Noting on August 26 that “HUD failed to make “a satisfactory explanation for its decision” Judge Myong J. Joun ruled, “It belies credulity to think t
Black America's Financially Fragile Retirees: Black Wealth Will Be 4 Times Lower Than Whites by 2050 (opens the original)
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Across succeeding generations, nearly every worker has been urged to “save” for retirement. However, yesteryear’s gold watch and pensions that came with health care benefits or even added stock options are today nearly extinct. Instead, the emergence of varying 401(k) retirement plans has lifted many employer legacy costs by shifting the brunt of that financial responsibility to workers. Even worse, many low-wage workers have no employer-sponsored retirement plan. For Black America, this shiftin
450,000 Student Loan Borrowers Duped Into High-Cost Loans Receive $23B in Relief (opens the original)
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A federal appeals court last month issued a ruling erasing $23 billion in student loan debt for an estimated 450,000 borrowers duped by false promises made by more than 150 for-profit colleges. The debt ruling for full settlement relief came on July 17 in a unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in the case known as Sweet v. McMahon. “It makes clear that the federal government cannot simply disregard borrowers’ rights and its own legal obligati
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