Meet Brian Schwalb
D.C.’s Out-of-Touch Attorney General is working hard to make sure working residents lose early access to their wages and are forced back to traditional credit products with mandatory fees and interest and recourse to your credit rating.
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Schwalb to working people: “Let them use credit”
D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb built his career — and his fortune — as a high-powered corporate lawyer, earning millions representing wealthy clients and big institutions. Now, from the comfort of that privileged perch, he’s making sweeping claims about financial services like Earned Wage Access without any real understanding of what it means to live paycheck to paycheck. His perspective is shaped by boardrooms, not break rooms — and it shows. For countless working people in the District, access to their earned wages is a lifeline. But Schwalb is working hard to prevent them from using this important service.
Brian schwalb doesn’t know what it’s like to live paycheck to paycheck.
Tell Us What you think of Attorney General Brian Schwalb’s priorities
Tell us what you think of Attorney General Brian Schwalb’s effort to deny thousands of District residents access to Earned Wage Access products like EarnIn. Do you think he’s representing your interests, or is he trying to make headlines to advance his political career? Tell us what you think.