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Ayanna Pressley: “So why should the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau care about enhancing the welfare of predatory lenders?”

On the recordMay 15, 2019
So why should the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau care about enhancing the welfare of predatory lenders?
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Pressley questions the CFPB's focus on lenders' welfare over consumer protection.

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