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Policymakers should support broad-based nationwide passenger rail service, including high-speed rail. Service should be integrated and coordinated with regional, state, and local passenger rail.
Policymakers and the private sector should meet the transit needs of people who are older, frail, or have disabilities. This includes:
Congress should provide adequate funding for ADA enforcement activities. It should utilize the higher federal match for compliance with the ADA. Congress also should
Occupational regulation should provide meaningful consumer health, safety, or financial well-being benefits. Policymakers should streamline licensing requirements where possible.
Congress should provide financial incentives for design modifications that improve the travel environment for older adults.
Policymakers should expand access to affordable small-business government-guaranteed loans, including those from the Small Business Administration.
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.