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CFPB CONTINUES ROLE AS POLITICAL FOOTBALL AS ITS EFFICACY IS DEBATED
- A fairly balanced look at the effects the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has had on consumers, albeit using only one example of an issue a couple had with their mortgage servicer. Tackling the partisan divide that separate Republicans and Democrats on their views of the agency, and advocates on both sides of the debate, the article does draw the conclusion that the CFPB has been a good thing for consumers. Although, as one opponent says, “If one toaster out of a thousand toasters explodes, their view is get rid of all the toasters.”
MANY CONSUMERS STILL UNABLE TO COVER SMALL EMERGENCY EXPENSES, BUT FEWER GOING WITHOUT MEDICAL CARE BECAUSE THEY CAN’T AFFORD IT
- Nearly 76 million adults are either “struggling to get by” or “just getting by” according to a survey conducted y the Federal Reserve Board. And 27% of respondents went without some type of medical care last year because they could not afford it, which was a “statistically significant” decline from 31% a year earlier, according to the study. A copy of the report can be downloaded here.
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