Your Privacy is Important to Us?: A Report Card on How Bank Privacy Notices Discourage Consumers from Exercising the Right to Financial Privacy

(Released October 2001) In 1999, Congress allowed large financial corporations – banks, brokerage firms and insurance companies – to merge when it passed the Financial Modernization Act, otherwise known as the Gramm-Leach- Bliley Act (GLBA). Throughout the debate on this legislation, consumer advocates worried that the law included too few protections to restrict corporate use of personal financial information. Click here to download...

The Impossible Dream: Tax Credits are a 10-Foot Rope Thrown to Uninsured New Yorkers at the Bottom of a 40-Foot Hole

(Released October 2, 2001) PPEF tries to determine what the President’s tax-credit proposal would mean for uninsured adults in New York State by asking: Is the proposed tax-credit enough to purchase health insurance coverage in New York State? Is the proposed tax-credit enough to offset the cost of health insurance so that coverage is affordable for low and moderate income New Yorkers? Click here to download the...