Category: Videos

Loan Shark Week: A Vortex of Debt

In honor of “Shark Week,” Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley released a whiteboard video to urge the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to crack down on predatory payday lending and prevent loan sharks from trapping American families in a vortex of debt.

Merkley: A Progressive Agenda to Create New Opportunities

On Tuesday, May 12, Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley joined New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and progressive leaders from around the country by the steps of the U.S. Capitol to lay out a bold new progressive agenda to create opportunity and rising wages for ordinary Americans. The agenda directly takes

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