canceling $50,000 of student loan debt is the single most effective Executive action available to get our economy going and to make progress toward closing the racial wealth gap

You can't look at a racial wealth and income gap that has barely budged since we passed the Civil Rights Act, and think the economy looks just, or that we all have equal opportunity.

But this zero-sum view of the economy hurts everyone.

We have allowed a system to take root that treats American workers as a commodity, a cost to be minimized--instead of the engine behind all our businesses' success.

What does it profit a man to be able to eat at an integrated lunch counter if he doesn't earn enough money to buy a hamburger and a cup of coffee?

Wall Street's 2008 crisis cost the economy tens of trillions of dollars and destroyed 53 percent of Black wealth in the country.

If we want a fair and just society, with a growing middle class that everyone has the opportunity to join, we have to stop letting Wall Street run the economy.

I would like to enter a statement into the record. The President swears an oath to faithfully execute the Office of the Presidency and to ``preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.'' At the very core of that…

the good news is that unlike 2008, we now have an agency that is dedicated to putting consumers first.

I asked the SEC for more information about the dramatic share price swings and whether they represented a 'fair, orderly, and efficient' market function.

The SEC is not requiring companies to make public disclosure about climate-related risks.

It is long past time to send a signal to Wall Street that the Bureau is not going to turn the other way and look away when big financial institutions discriminate against Black, Latino, Asian, and Native customers.

The SEC stands by while the stock market too often functions like a casino.

I anticipate that you will show the same independence and courage as head of the SEC.

enforcement actions plummeted.

the whole problem of discrimination in financial services exacerbates racial wealth inequalities, and I am glad that you are going to make this a priority.

No one should be kicked out during a quarantine, particularly if they have been lied to. I really believe that strongly.

the Bureau needs to return to its core mission of protecting consumers.

Americans didn’t send us to Washington to be some kind of debating society. They sent us here to get things done and that’s what we should do.

We need this money. And it’s exactly as you said at the beginning. This is the money we need for vaccines. This is the money we need to help people who are struggling and this is the money we need to get our schools open. This is…

the SEC has been asleep on the job for long enough.

All we’re asking -- is 2 cents, 2 cents to help build a future for the rest of America.

the SEC has the tools to make the markets function better.

Is there any reason why a company that rakes in millions and millions of dollars from buying up small businesses and closing them down should not have to disclose their general practices to their investors?

It’s not just minimum wage. It’s voter protection. It’s environmental crisis issues. It’s immigration. It’s universal child care. It’s college. It’s gun safety. It’s the things we need to pass to make this country work.