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Consumer advocate tweeting about #finjustice, AAPI issues, Brookline & random stuff.Moving to https://t.co/5JUg1aaM0N (all Tweets my own) Retweets =/= endorsements
Oct 14, 2022 10 tweets 4 min read
Hot off the press for your weekend perusal, a report by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus documenting how badly the credit bureaus are handling disputes and the massive scale of the problem. Some stunning statistics and a 🧵1/9 coronavirus.house.gov/news/press-rel… Nearly 336 million. That’s how many individual items or “tradelines” were disputed on credit reports during 2019-2021. 2/9
Aug 10, 2020 12 tweets 6 min read
1/12 Been doing some thinking the past few months about credit reports/scores, racial economic inequality, and #BLM. About a dozen studies find stark disparities in credit scores of Black consumers compared to whites. Here's my work in progress & a thread link.medium.com/xAZxhtihN8 2/12 It’s a continuation of a 2016 Policy Brief on the same topic, where you can find the list of research studies nclc.org/images/pdf/cre…