Letters to Regulators: AFR Education Fund sent a letter to the Federal Reserve urging regulators to reject misguided recommendations regarding the implementation of S.2155.

October 1, 2018 Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFR Education Fund), sent a letter to the Federal Reserve in response to the recent letter from Senator Perdue and others. The Perdue letter urges regulators to view the implementation of S. 2155 as requiring extensive and inappropriate deregulation of large banks. AFR Ed Fund argued […]

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Letters to Regulators: AFR Education Fund submitted a letter to the SEC regarding proposed amendments to the Whistleblower Program rules

Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund sent a letter to the SEC regarding proposed amendments to the Commission’s Whistleblower Program rules. While we generally support a few of the proposed amendments, we are concerned that a number other proposed changes would initially undermine the Whistleblower Program and ultimately weaken the SEC ability to discover fraud, […]

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Joint Letter: 62 Orgs Urge ED to Reject Changes that Weaken Accountability

Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund joined with 61 other organizations to tell the Department of Education that we are closely monitoring their ongoing efforts to recklessly deregulate higher education. As 62 organizations and advocates for students, families, taxpayers, veterans and service members, we wrote to express grave concern that the Department of Education’s 2019 […]

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Joint Letter: 68 Orgs Call on Dept of ED to Preserve Gainful Employment Rule

Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund joined with 67 other organizations working on behalf of students, consumers, vets, servicemembers, civil rights, & college access to urder Education Secretary Betsy Devos not to eliminate the gainful employment rule, which serves to defend students from high-cost, low-return career ed programs. You can find a copy of the letter here.

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