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Laws and regulations should strengthen and enhance consumer protection. Policymakers should enhance protections against unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices.
Federal legislation should provide a minimum level of consumer protections. It should preserve states’ ability to provide additional protections to consumers.
Regulators should ensure robust consumer protections in the financial marketplace. They should provide effective oversight of the financial industry.
Policymakers and financial institutions should protect consumers with diminished capacity and others at risk of financial exploitation.
All depository institutions should be required to provide basic-banking services affordable to customers with low incomes. This includes low-cost basic checking or savings accounts.
Companies should disclose age data on their workforce and for new hires.
Occupational regulation should provide meaningful consumer health, safety, or financial well-being benefits. Policymakers should streamline licensing requirements where possible.
Policymakers should expand access to affordable small-business government-guaranteed loans, including those from the Small Business Administration.
Providers of credit- and debt-related services should be licensed in each state in which they operate.