July 19, 2021

Forbes: Fighting Discrimination Has To Be At CFPB’s Forefront Says Elizabeth Warren And Agency’s Leader

Fighting racial discrimination needs to be at the forefront of everything the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau does, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and the agency’s current head CFPB Acting Director David Uejio said Monday.

Their assertions came at a webinar on the agency’s 10th anniversary hosted by a number of groups that helped lobby it into being including Americans for Financial Reform, U.S. PIRG, the Consumer Federation of America, and the National Consumer Law Center.

Discrimination gets to the heart of the bureau, said who came up with the idea for the consumer bureau when she was a Harvard University law professor.

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By:  Ted Knutson
Source: Forbes