NNPA NEWSWIRE — A new report released by the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) analyzes how for-profit students who sought educational training to improve their lives...
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) Every payday, working Americans are reminded of the multiple tax deductions that pay for government. If you’re like most people...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) When Dr. Ben Carson was named Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), many housing and civil rights...
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.
Charlene Crowell talks about the role that the Fair Housing Administration played in discriminating against Black homebuyers in the housing market.
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 (NNPA Newswire Columnist) In the wake of a recent series of anti-consumer actions taken by Mick Mulvaney, the Trump-appointed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s...
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 (Deputy Communications Director, Center for Responsible Lending) The late Langston Hughes created a masterful body of poetry in the 20th Century that spoke...
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) A scheme designed to evade an important Department of Education rule could soon lead to an estimated 41,000 former Corinthian...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) As millions of students return to school, the nation’s Justice Department (DOJ) is beginning an investigation that could potentially sue...
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) As the Senate Banking Committee turns its attention to reform the nation’s secondary mortgage market, civil rights leaders recently spoke...
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...
