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Five Ways the CFPB Can Help You With Your Student Loans
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a new government agency created after the financial crisis
– Their mission is to make markets for consumer financial products and services work for Americans
— whether they are applying for a mortgage, choosing among credit cards, or using any number of other consumer financial products.
Above all, this means ensuring that consumers get the information they need to make the financial decisions they believe are best for themselves and their families—that prices are clear up-front, that risks are visible, and that nothing is buried in the fine print. In a market that works, consumers should be able to make direct comparisons among products and no provider should be able to use unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices.
StudentDebtCrisis.org wants our members to know that there is help available for student loan borrowers. Here are 5 tools that can help you with your student loans, whether you are a first time borrower, or even if you’re in default. Check out these great tools provided by the CFPB to help you navigate your own loan situation:
1. If you are a new borrower, or you’re considering taking out student loans, check out the CFPB tool for New Borrowers – Paying for College.
2. If you already have student debt, use this tool for Existing Borrowers Repaying Student Debt.
3. Suffering in Student Loan Default? What are your rights as a defaulted borrower? Click here to find out.
4. If you are having trouble with your lender, or feel that something illegal has taken place regarding your student loan – Submit a complaint to the CFPB.
5. For general inquiries, check out the CFPB’s Q & A section Ask CFPB.
Thank you, as always, for your continued support!
Sincerely,
StudentDebtCrisis.org
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Greg Sutherland, via Rainforest Action Network
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| Pledge of Resistance volunteers march to TransCanada’s office in Houston. September 16, 2013. |
When the march began, I was nervous. I had never done anything like this before, but by the time we reached the Houston office of TransCanada, the company trying to build the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, my nervousness had washed away. I was resolved and ready to be arrested for blocking the entrance to TransCanada’s office. When the police came for me, my voice was hoarse from chanting for President Obama to stop the pipeline.
I decided to risk arrest because I don’t want to leave my four grandchildren with a hellish world of climate disasters and resource wars. I hate that they might have to live in a much more dangerous, polluted and inhospitable world when they are my age. To protect the climate and usher in the future they deserve, we must collectively take on hundreds of tasks to transition to a clean energy economy in next five years. And stopping Keystone XL is one very concrete thing that we can do to protect the climate RIGHT NOW.
Will you help me stop the pipeline by joining the Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance?
The Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance is a project bringing together tens of thousands of people to risk arrest in peaceful civil disobedience, if necessary, to make it politically unfeasible for President Obama to approve the pipeline.
As for myself, I am organizing a Pledge of Resistance action in Atlanta because I want to demonstrate to the President that people all across the country are commited to fighting climate change, even in conservative Georgia, where I live. Hundreds of other volunteers are organizing actions in every part of the country. We need your help to make the actions as big as possible. If we do that, we can demand the President represent the people and not the corporations and reject Keystone XL.
Please join me in the Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance and commit to participating in a peaceful civil disobedience action to call on the President to reject Keystone XL.
The bonds I formed with the twelve others arrested in Houston are some of the most powerful I’ve ever made in such a short time. Those bonds, along with the tens of thousands coming together in the Pledge of Resistance, have made clear to me that we are finally ready to take the urgent stand necessary to protect the climate. If we take that stand, President Obama will not be able to ignore us.
Join the Pledge of Resistance to stop the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Greg Sutherland Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance Volunteer
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P.S. Have you already signed the Pledge of Resistance? If so, please forward this email to your friends and family.
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| Republican leaders vie for the spot of presidential hopeful heir apparent at the Conservative Political Action Conference. |
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Orangutan graveyards
Orangutans are being driven from their homes to make way for palm oil production.  Please make a gift today to help us protect animals and natural places. |
Joao Talocchi, Greenpeace
Shocking news out of Indonesia: Greenpeace investigators, working with the Friends of National Parks Foundation, have found something sinister on a palm oil plantation: an orangutan graveyard.
While we don’t yet know how or why the orangutan remains came to be buried in the dirt on a palm oil plantation, we know that orangutans do not bury their dead: this was done by human hands.
You can make sure Greenpeace can continue to uncover, expose and fight against the impacts of environmental devastation, by making a donation today.
Deforestation has led to a 50% decline in the orangutan population of Borneo, where the buried orangutan remains were found. And we know that palm oil production is the single biggest cause of deforestation in Indonesia. Even worse, we’ve learned that an American company, Procter & Gamble, buys palm oil from suppliers who are linked to the very plantation where we found the orangutan remains.
This is why we’re part of a global movement demanding that Procter & Gamble commit to a No Deforestation Policy immediately in its products like Head & Shoulders shampoo. Already, over half a million people have joined with Greenpeace to bring this demand to P&G. But so far, P&G refuses to budge.
We need to turn up the heat on P&G and other companies linked to the destruction of key habitat for orangutans and other animals. Help us make this possible by donating today. Your donation will also support our work to fight global warming, protect our oceans, and other campaigns to protect our environment.
Real change is already happening, thanks to the support of people like you. More and more companies — like Hershey, L’Oreal, and Unilever — are committing to deforestation-free practices. And just yesterday, we learned that Mars has committed to a No Deforestation policy.
Indonesian rainforest habitats are disappearing so quickly, we have to act now. We won’t just sit and wait for holdouts like P&G to come around. We must ensure that the palm oil industry changes quickly enough to save animals like the orangutan.
Please make a gift now to support our work to protect natural places around the globe. To have a healthy, diverse planet, we must end deforestation. This won’t be easy, but I know we can do it with you at our side.
For the forests,
Joao Talocchi Greenpeace Palm Oil Campaigner
P.S. Please stand up for animals like orangutans and make a donation today. Your support will make a huge difference in the fight to protect their forest home.
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