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Any public-private partnerships must ensure full accountability to the public.
Policymakers should enter into these arrangements only when they can:
Occupational regulation should provide meaningful consumer health, safety, or financial well-being benefits. Policymakers should streamline licensing requirements where possible.
Policymakers should prohibit lawsuit settlement provisions that keep confidential information that could endanger health and safety while protecting legitimate confidentiality interests such as pri
States should sufficiently fund state victim compensation programs. They should provide expedited compensation in emergencies.
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.
Policymakers should require providers of credit- and debt-related services to provide written contracts to consumers.
Bankruptcy law should increase consumer protections. It should also ensure access, especially for people with low and moderate incomes.
Consumers should receive accurate, timely, and easily understood disclosures of risks and costs.