Tag: Supreme Court case

I received an email recently regarding a 2022 decision by a three-judge panel for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision found the funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unconstitutional because the agency gets its money outside of the annual appropriations process. The Supreme Court has now agreed to hear the case. The question is…

For the sliver of retirees who are far behind in paying their own or their children’s student loans, Social Security can withhold part of their benefits to pay the loans back. But college has gotten much more expensive since the baby boomers attended, and loan delinquencies are higher among working people and especially Black Americans…