WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down the agency that was created to protect consumers ...

Financial Times journalist Peter Spiegel will join the Washington Post as a managing editor starting Feb. 24. Spiegel, who will join the paper’s current managing editors Liz Seymour and Scott ...

Starting in 2026, Washington plans to automatically award financial aid to students from low-income families in hopes of growing college enrollment.

Government drops cases against ‘predatory’ financial firms The CFPB once described Credit Acceptance as “predatory,” but under Trump the agency has given up on prosecuting the firm. June ...

The number of students filling out the federal student financial aid form in Washington is rebounding. As of March, 38% of high school seniors have filed the Free Application for Federal Student ...