Howard Dvorkin and Credit Counseling Confusion

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

Dallas        Recently there was a front page expose in the Wall Street Journal slamming Howard Dvorkin, who was the founder and former president of Consolidated Credit Counseling, perhaps the largest credit counseling outfit in the country.  The case made by the reporters was based on a pretty simple contradiction.  Dvorkin was a credit counselor but …

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Organizing the Debtors to Hold Hospitals Accountable

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care

Houston      Ok.  We’re all clear that nonprofit hospitals now have to back off of the bully-boy tactics involved in debt collections for lower income and working families drowning under the costs of hospital emergencies with inadequate insurance and resources.   We’ve talked about the fact that the Treasury Department and the IRS have put into effect …

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