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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Fines Titlemax Parent Company $9 Million for Luring Consumers into More Costly Loans

Lender Also Illegally Exposed Borrowers’ Debt Information to Employers, Friends, and Family WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–September 27, 2016.  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today took action against TitleMax parent company TMX Finance, LLC for luring consumers into costly loan renewals by presenting them with misleading information about the deals’ terms[Read More…]

White House Press Briefing by Josh Earnest, September 26, 2016

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2016 – 1:15 P.M. EDT MR. EARNEST:  Good afternoon, everybody.  Happy Monday.  Hope you all had a pleasant weekend.  I do not have any announcements at the top so we can go straight to your questions. Kevin, do you want to start? Q    Sure, thank you,[Read More…]

The Reviews Are In: Clinton Won The Debate (Video)

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–September 27, 2016.  The reviews are in. Last night, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met on the presidential debate stage for the first time and Hillary Clinton was the clear winner.  Once again, Donald Trump showed why he lacks the knowledge, values and temperament to be president. Only one[Read More…]

New Video Features Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado’s Story on Trump Demeaning Women

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–September 27, 2016.  Hillary for America released a new video featuring former Miss Universe Alicia Machado. Machado shared her story of how Donald Trump bullied her because of her weight and heritage. Hillary Clinton closed her debate tonight with slamming Donald Trump for continually demeaning women like Alicia Machado.[Read More…]

Policy Experts and the Media Agree: Trump’s Few Policy Plans Are Devastating for the Middle Class and Don’t Add Up

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2016.  In a prebuttal to the first presidential debate, Hillary for America released a review of Donald Trump’s few policy proposals from experts and journalists, who have judged them variously as incoherent, unrealistic, excessively costly, and devastating for working families – where he has even bothered to[Read More…]

Trump Camp Gets Touchy-Touchy About All the Pre-Debate Coverage of Trump’s Compulsive Lying

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2016 By Kerry Eleveld Kellyanne Conway doesn’t “appreciate” all this emphasis on the media serving as fact-checkers. Tallying up Donald Trump’s perpetual lies is suddenly all the rage, with both the New York Times and Politico posting back-to-back stories on Trump’s penchant for lying. Now his campaign[Read More…]

Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch Delivers Remarks at the Fourth Annual Violence Reduction Network Summit

ARKANSAS–(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2016 Thank you, Assistant Attorney General [Karol] Mason, for that kind introduction and for your outstanding leadership of the Office of Justice Programs.  I also want to thank Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General [Beth] McGarry and Bureau of Justice Assistance Deputy Director [Kristin] Mahoney for their tireless work[Read More…]

White House Fact Sheet: The 8th Annual White House Tribal Nations Conference

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2016. Today, the White House will host the 8th Annual White House Tribal Nations Conference, bringing together leaders from federally recognized tribes to Washington, DC. The President and members of his Cabinet will discuss a range of issues important to tribal leaders, with an emphasis on ways[Read More…]

White House Announces Over $80 million in New Federal Investment and a Doubling of Participating Communities in the White House Smart Cities Initiative

“If we can reconceive of our government so that the interactions and the interplay between private sector, nonprofits, and government are opened up, and we use technology, data, social media in order to join forces around problems, then there’s no problem that we face in this country that is not[Read More…]

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