Americans for Financial Reform helps you tell our Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (or CFPB) to roll back so-called "Earned Wage Access" loans. "Earned Wage Access" schemes promise to give you some of your paycheck before payday if you need it, but then slam you with 300% interest rates and usurious junk fees, meaning they're just another payday loan. No use arguing that these loans give good Americans more "choice." In a civilized society, there should be no "choice" to be some rich bankster's prey.
More Perfect Union helps you tell our U.S. Department of Agriculture (or USDA) to limit sugar (and calories from sugar) in school lunches. The "added sugar" part of our food labels is a relatively recent development, and our USDA's proposed sugar limits would be the first-ever. But of course big sugar corporations don't want this to happen! We first started adding sugar to food to conceal that food's spoilage; hundreds of years later, we’ve made it a mania, and no CEO's "right" to more unearned money can change that.
Finally, More Perfect Union also helps you tell Stellantis to honor its contractual promise to re-open the Belvedere, IL plant it closed in 2021. The United Auto Workers (or UAW) union fought Stellantis (owner of Jeep and Chrysler) tooth and nail to get the Belvedere plant reopened, but now Stellantis's CEO wants to delay reopening until 2028 – after the UAW contract expires. So clever! Thus it’s time for the Big Stick of Bad PR to come out. Shame still works, or Donald Trump wouldn’t call it a tool of totalitarianism.
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