Tag: Financial Reform
Achieving Reinvestment: NCRC’s 2013 Award Winners
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition presented its 2013 National Achievement Awards to leaders in expanding fair access to financial...
Invest in Consumers, Bolster Your Bottom Line
The more financial coaching people receive, the more financially resilient they’ll become.That’s what a recent study conducted by NeighborWorks®...
Deflating a GOP Double Standard
After the sequester cut teaching jobs, Head Start spots, senior food programs, and access to nutrition assistance for over half...
Getting the Mortgage Market Back on Track
Of all the things government can and should do about housing, creating a strong, responsive mortgage market may be more...
Is the Mortgage Interest Deduction Vulnerable?
Shelterforce and the National Housing Institute have been outspoken about the need to change the mortgage interest deduction — the country’s largest housing subsidy,...
Bair: Mortgage Crisis Shows We Need a Level Playing Field
FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair emphasized the “common goal” that should exist between banks and consumers regarding access to credit and healthy lending for the...
Can’t Sue ‘Em? You Can Move Your Money
Local governents, frustrated (there’s an understatement for you) with the devastating effects of massive foreclosures have tried suing lenders for essentially offering defective products,...
Senate Passes Financial Reform; NSP 3 Included
With the Senate passing today, by a 60 to 39 margin, a major overhaul to the financial regulatory system (the Restoring American Financial Stability...
What You Need To Know About Financial Reform
Is the public in favor of regulating Wall Street?
A national survey conducted in March by the nonpartisan Pew Economic Policy Group found that 68...
Showdown on Wall Street and K Street
The shake-out of the American economy has left a handful of large banks at the pinnacle of the corporate power structure. Next week, a...
Strengthening the CRA
In 1995, the last time federal banking agencies revised the rules of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), they promised to conduct a follow-up review...