NNPA NEWSWIRE — Whatever happened to the American Dream of owning a home and giving your children a better life than you experienced as a child?...
SPEAKING OUT WEEKLY NEWS — "...NCLC cites previous research by the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) that determined car buyers who financed vehicles at the dealership...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Whatever happened to the American Dream of owning a home and giving your children a better life than you experienced as a child?...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As of June 2018, more than 1.2 million student loan borrowers requested to be certified, with 890,000 ultimately certified eligible. 28,000 applied for...
NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY — When personal checking accounts are involved, transactions without available funds in checking accounts can trigger a series of fees that...
PRECINCT REPORTER NEWS — “For households of color, the Great Recession erased the economic progress made over the past three decades in their entirety,” said Astrada....
By: Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) A decade ago, the entire nation suffered through a financial crisis that led to the brink of a global financial...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) With 44 million consumers owing student debt that now reaches $1.5 trillion and still climbing, a lot of people want...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Every day, American school children are taught about this country’s founding. Untold generations were taught that in a democracy, government...
The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act is the nation’s most comprehensive mortgage lending report for its inclusion of data on lending by race and ethnicity.
Center for Responsible Lending Deputy Communications Director Charlene Crowell talks about changes to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and predatory lending.
Charlene Crowell, the deputy communications director for the Center for Responsible Lending, talks about the Fair Housing Act and the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King,...
The proposal to overhaul the secondary mortgage market’s government-sponsored enterprises from U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) was quickly and unanimously rejected by...
By Charlene Crowell (Communications Deputy Director, Center for Responsible Lending) Mounting student debt is a nagging problem for most families these days. As the cost of...
By Charlene Crowell (Communications Deputy Director, Center for Responsible Lending) “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” is a well-known adage. In recent weeks,...
By Charlene Crowell (Deputy Communications Director, Center for Responsible Lending) It’s that time of year again when auto dealers try to make room in their showrooms...
By Charlene Crowell (Communication Director, Center for Responsible Lending) A group of Capitol Hill lawmakers are combining efforts and influence to legislatively crack down on predatory...
By Charlene Crowell (Communications Director, Center for Responsible Lending) Civil rights leaders and Capitol Hill lawmakers are standing up and speaking out against a recent Department...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) The song, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” may have been recorded decades ago, first by Otis Redding and later by...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Decades of vigilant struggles, sacrifices and civil rights legislation enacted in the 1960s won federal promises to ensure that discrimination...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) No one ever said that higher education wouldn’t cost money. Across the country, tuition is steadily rising and students are...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) A House bill designed to reverse regulation of financial services and end consumer protections is attracting the attention of a...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Families, who have assembled the necessary financial resources to apply, qualify, and then purchase a home, understandably value that key...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) This year’s swearing-in of a new Congress and President signaled a surge of new ideas and approaches to government. However,...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) This year has brought a number of significant developments. A new Congress, the 115th in our nation’s history and similarly...
