Anna Anderson is a Staff Attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, focusing primarily on student loan issues. Prior to her work at NCLC, she was a Supervising Attorney at Legal Assistance of Western New York (LawNY), where she oversaw the Consumer Protection Unit, helping eliminate more than $1,000,000 in debt for low-income New Yorkers. [...]
September 1, 2022 Open Public Service Loan Forgiveness Q&A session with NCLC Staff Attorney Kyra Taylor and Federal Student Loan Ombudswoman Bonnie Latreille. Speakers: Kyra Taylor, National Consumer Law Center Bonnie Latreille, U.S. Department of Education
July 13, 2022 Despite the aims of the Affordable Care Act, medical debt remains a looming crisis, disproportionately affecting Black households and communities. Race contributes to whether households have medical debt, with 28% of Black households carrying medical debt compared to 17% of white non-Hispanic households. Households in the South, the region with the highest [...]
Protesters march against mass water shutoffs in Detroit, Michigan on July 18, 2014. (Pictured at second-from-left: Maureen Taylor, chair of Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, a co-sponsoring organization of the rally.)Joshua Lott/Getty Images Written by Olivia Wein, Karen Lusson, & Berneta Haynes, National Consumer Law Center Co-authored with Larry Levine & Sam Whillans, Natural [...]
Talia K. Rothstein (they/them) is the 2022 Hobbs Fellow at NCLC and a third-year law student at Yale. In law school, Talia supports worker organizing in the Worker Rights and Immigrant Advocacy Clinic and seeks disability benefits for LGTBQ+ veterans in the Veterans Legal Services Clinic. Talia spent last summer at the ACLU of Pennsylvania [...]
June 2022 © Copyright 2022, National Consumer Law Center, Inc. All rights reserved. 1. How Well Do the States Protect Consumers Against High-Cost Installment Loans? Map 1: APRs Allowed for Six-Month $500 Installment Loan Map 2: APRs Allowed for Two-Year $2,000 Installment Loan 2. Why States Should Cap Interest Rates and Fees 3. The [...]
June 7, 2022 Our nation’s long-standing discriminatory and racist economic practices have stripped Black families of the wealth and resources they need to support their children’s pursuit of higher education. Black students at every income level are disproportionately more likely to rely on loans to cover the cost of a college education. Black women, in [...]
Report Executive Summary Appendix 1: Other Invasive Robocalls Appendix 2: Scam Robocalls in the States Tables Press Release Published June 1, 2022 ©National Consumer Law Center, Inc. and Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Overview Every month, more than one billion scam robocalls designed to steal money from unsuspecting telephone subscribers are made [...]
Michelle Bates Deakin joined NCLC as Chief Communications Officer in 2022. Prior to NCLC, she served as Director of Communications at the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation and as Managing Director of Media Relations and Public Information at Harvard Law School. Her career in strategic communications and journalism has focused on legal issues and social justice. [...]
Click here to return to current Model State Law page Car Sales and Financing Transparent and Consistent Pricing of Motor Vehicle Add-Ons Act, December 2018 Safer Cars at the Point of Sale Act, December 2018 Making Repossessions Safer and Fairer: Model Consumer Amendments to Uniform Commercial Code Article 9, June 2016 Debt Collection and Settlement [...]
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