Ring Tone Settlement May Signal New Policies
Accused of billing customers for ring tone services that were supposed to be free, AT&T Mobility, the nation's largest cell phone carrier, has agreed to refund more than $10 million to thousands of...
View ArticleFlorida's Debt Traps
The fight to stomp out predatory lending has always been difficult -- the minute lawmakers target one form of usury, another springs up to take its place. Florida is learning that lesson well: The...
View ArticleBattle over amending Florida Constitution rages on
Anyone who thought the long, nasty fight over amending Florida's constitution had ended should think again.
View ArticleWill aggressive registration bring young voters to polls?
Experts question whether voter registration efforts will translate into voters turning out at the polls. While turnout among voters ages 18 to 24 surged to the highest level in a decade in 2004, it...
View ArticleCredit Bureaus’ Deal to Improve Accuracy ‘Huge’ for Consumers
(Bloomberg) -- Buying homes, getting jobs and borrowing money will be easier after an agreement by the three biggest U.S. consumer credit reporting services with New York.[...] “It’s a sea change in...
View ArticleHow Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score
This story in The Nation explains our work challenging the way data brokers use "black box," or secret, algorithms to make scoring decisions that may violate the law and deny credit opportunities. This...
View Article12 of America's Biggest Highway Boondoggles
Given that expanding highways at great public cost doesn’t improve rush-hour traffic, there are better ways to spend this money, argue report authors Jeff Inglis of Frontier Group and John C. Olivieri...
View ArticleLATimes: Obama's consumer protection legacy defined by aggressive agency
[This weekend, the Los Angele Times chronicled President Obama's consumer protection record, with heavy emphasis on the history and fight over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB):]"[...]...
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