It’s a financial practice so predatory that experts have likened its perpetrators to “bears on a trout stream” — and we have a chance to end it for good.

High-cost lenders, offering predatory loans often with triple-digit interest rates, set up shop wherever they feel they can lure customers into the debt trap that these loans create. Appallingly, they often specifically target veterans — who don’t currently have the same legal protections against these loans as active duty service members do.

Nothing about this practice is right or fair — and a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers

As people get ready to travel for the holidays, now seems like a good time to remember that airlines have yet to refund $10 billion of customers' money from flights canceled due to COVID-19.

Instead of handing out refunds, airlines offered travel credit -- letting them pocket billions of dollars of customers' cash. People deserve their money back.

Tell the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to help get people their money back -- and to keep airlines from deceptively steering consumers toward ticket vouchers when they have a right to a full refund.

We’re coming up on two years

One in 5 Americans who visit an emergency room or have surgery get stuck with a surprise medical bill -- even if they made sure to go to a hospital in their insurance network.

These surprise bills can amount to hundreds or even thousands of dollars. But you shouldn’t have to shoulder unfair costs just because a service you needed at an in-network hospital was given by an out-of-network provider.

The federal No Surprises Act, which will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2022, is consumers’ best defense against surprise medical billing -- but it’s up to the Department of Health And Human Services