Affordability concerns continue to plague homeowners and renters across the country, forcing organizations and legislators to seek a solution.… Continue Reading
America’s housing crisis reaches across income levels and geography, but the further one goes down the socioeconomic ladder, the more dire it becomes: Currently, the U.S. is short 7.2 million homes for the 11 million residents living on very low incomes. The affordable rental market is so constrained that 71% of low-income families spend over half their income on rent. Absent any meaningful federal investment in affordable housing in the last few decades, local governments, nonprofits, and in some cases, private companies, have tried to step up, but still, the affordable housing gap persists.… Continue Reading
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Thursday spoke with Glamour exclusively about the historic Senate hearing involving Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the Republican push to move forward with his confirmation, calling it "fundamentally wrong."… Continue Reading
United States Senators Elizabeth Warren
(D-Mass.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance
Committee, today announced a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS)
Secretary Alex Azar seeking answers on whether HHS misled Congress and the
public about the implementation of President Trump's "zero tolerance"
policy and the agency's ability to track separated parents and children.Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of
Inspector General (OIG)… Continue Reading
United States Senator Elizabeth
Warren (D-Mass.) today sent a letter to Federal Reserve Board
Chairman Jerome Powell urging him to maintain the Federal
Reserve's growth restriction on Wells Fargo until the bank replaces CEO
Tim Sloan with someone who is not deeply implicated in the
bank's misconduct. The letter states that the Wells Fargo
Board of Directors cannot comply with the Federal Reserve's requirements for
rescinding the growth restriction if it continues to employ a CEO who serve… Continue Reading
United States Senator Elizabeth Warren
(D-Mass.) today sent a letter to the Department of Commerce and National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to request that they do
everything in their power to ensure that the 42 federal fishing permits held by
disgraced fishing magnate Carlos Rafael remain in the Port of New Bedford.
The federal permits, which cover a significant portion of the ground fish
industry and have an economic footprint that goes far beyond fish landings, are
c… Continue Reading
In August, the world watched in horror as a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in
Yemen claimed the lives of 40 innocent children. The boys, many under the age
of 10, were killed when their school bus was bombed during a class trip. The
weapon used in that deadly bombing was made in America.… Continue Reading
Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s partisan and openly disrespectful testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week raised serious questions about his judicial temperament and fitness to serve as a judge. There are many reasons Judge Kavanaugh does not deserve a promotion to our highest court, but it’s his disregard for common-sense gun safety that hits closest to home for people who have lost loved ones, friends, or colleagues to gun violence. … Continue Reading
Home ownership is at the heart of the American dream. Michael Smith, his
wife, Janet, and their daughter, Ashley, were living that dream. They scrimped
and saved for a down payment while he worked full-time moving packages for DHL,
and Janet, for Chase. Finally, they bought a modest home with a small yard in a
safe Chicago neighborhood.… Continue Reading
