• Title: THE CREDIT CARD ACT, ALSO, TPS FOR HAITIANS, ALSO, MARCH AGAINST ARPAIO.
• Guest: Aracely Panameño
• Additional Guests: Oscar Chacón, Valeria Fernández
• Host: Samuel Orozco
• Date: TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2010
• Description: THE CREDIT CARD ACT. The Credit CARD Act includes sweeping changes to the marketing practices of credit card companies.
• Genre: News
• Location: San Francisco, CA
• Program Number: 6002
• Producer: Samuel Orozco
• Progam Number: 6002
• Publisher: Radio Bilingüe
• Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License
• Subject: Economic Development, Immigration
• Year: 2010
• Program Name: la_100119.mp3
• Length: 59:06 minutes (54.12 MB)
• Format: Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

THE CREDIT CARD ACT. The Credit CARD Act includes sweeping changes to the marketing practices of credit card companies. The law, which stricter provisions go into effect on February 22, prohibits card companies from raising interest rates and introduces consumer protections. In anticipation, card companies have began cutting credit lines and raising interest rates. A consumer advocate gives advice on how to protect against these eleventh-hour squeeze.

Guest: Aracely Panameño, Director of Latino Affairs, Center for Responsible Lending, Washington, D.C., www.responsiblelending.org

ALSO, TPS FOR HAITIANS. Following the 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti, the United States has granted temporary protected status for undocumented Haitians, permitting them to live and work in the U.S. for the next 18 months.

Guest: Oscar Chacón, Executive Director, National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC), Chicago, IL, www.nalacc.org

ALSO, MARCH AGAINST ARPAIO. Around 20,000 people marched to protest the anti-immigrant tactics of Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix, Arizona. A local reporter joins this edition to tell about the march.

Guest: Valeria Fernández, Freelance Journalist, Phoenix, AZ.