Richard Cordray: “I know that everyone agrees that discrimination has no place in our economy.”

I stand by and believe this was a reasonable approach to how to get relief to hundreds of thousands of consumers who were discriminated against under the disparate impact theory that I know some people disagree with, but the Supreme Court…

[a]rbitration clauses, as they are used today both in the field of consumer finance and more generally, often have been deliberately designed to block Americans from effective means of vindicating their rights.

On top of the historic debt that we have pushed upon tens of millions of Americans, they face a financial marketplace that is littered with predatory players.

The changes that are being made here that the Secretary announced...are going to result in the numbers of people receiving public service loan forgiveness...into the tens of thousands.