The Center for Economic Justice (CEJ) is a U.S.-based consumer advocacy nonprofit that works on behalf of low- and moderate-income consumers to promote availability, affordability and accessibility of essential services such as insurance, credit and utilities. CEJ conducts research, files regulatory comments, provides expert testimony, and advocates for regulatory and legislative reforms to protect consumers from unfair, discriminatory, or opaque market practices.
Consumer protection in insurance and credit markets; restrictions on credit-based insurance scoring and anti-discrimination measures; increased regulatory data transparency and reporting; affordability and access to homeowners, auto and life insurance; oversight of insurer practices (claims, underwriting, lender-placed insurance); utility affordability; consumer disclosures and fair sales practices for annuities and life products; climate-related insurance policy and resilience data collection.
Primarily funded by individual donations and foundation grants.
Birny Birnbaum (Executive Director); partnerships and coordinated advocacy with groups such as Public Citizen, Consumer Federation of America, Americans for Financial Reform, Consumer Watchdog; engagement with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners consumer representative processes and participation in forums such as the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue.
Non-profit advocacy organization (501(c)(3) consumer advocacy group)
