To be clear, unless you believe that poverty is a character flaw, there is absolutely no justification for triple-digit interest rate installment loans.

I think we eliminated debtors' prisons in something like 1833.

This is child abuse. This is elder abuse. This is abuse, period--par for the course of this administration, where the cruelty is the point.

Make no mistake about it: Housing is health.

Mr. Peterson's research is just one more case study into our continued criminalization of poverty and the weaponization of the legal system against those who are already living on the margins.

In times of struggle, the options shouldn't be a debt trap interest rate or nothing at all.

Exempt income is income that you need for basic necessities--food, medicine, rent--and income that, like Social Security, other forms of pension, public benefits, and certain amounts of wages, are exempt from collectors, because we don't…

What we are seeing is really intergenerational trauma, poverty, and poor health outcomes.

Poverty is not a character flaw; it is a result of failed and often cruel policymaking.

Mr. Chair, I find very often we tend to stereotype and present a very shallow narrative as to who experiences homelessness or is on the precipice of experiencing it. The reality is that struggle is certainly not a character flaw, and…

Mr. Chair, my bill, the Comprehensive CREDIT Act, will greatly improve a fundamentally flawed credit reporting system, providing much-needed relief for families across the country. It works to protect consumers from unfair and misleading…