'Credit Card Nation' Author to Address Credit Counseling Industry

Dr. Robert D. Manning, author of "Credit Card Nation" will be a Keynote Speaker at the Spring Conference of the American Association of Debt Management Organizations (AADMO) in Washington, D.C. on May 10, 2007. AADMO is the largest trade association for the credit counseling industry.

(PRWEB) May 2, 2007 -- Dr. Robert D. Manning, author of "Credit Card Nation" will be a Keynote Speaker at the Spring Conference of the American Association of Debt Management Organizations (AADMO) in Washington, D.C. on May 10, 2007. AADMO is the largest trade association for the credit counseling industry.

According to Mark Guimond, Executive Director of the AADMO, "Dr. Manning is one of the nation's leading experts on the causes and effects of consumer debt. His research and conclusions shed a lot of light on our modern plastic dependent society. We welcome his views on the growth of consumer credit, the corresponding level of consumer debt, the need for credit counseling and the availability of bankruptcy."

"Dr. Manning will also discuss the status of bankruptcy reform under the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA), the impact on consumers and its future", said Guimond.

A frequently invited expert before U.S. Congressional Committees, Dr. Manning's research has influenced public policy debate on the statutory regulation of retail banking and consumer debt in the U.S. and other countries including Canada, UK, Greece, Korea, and Australia. He has testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary, Banking, and U.S. House Financial Services Committees in addition to numerous federal commissions and state legislatures.

Other sessions will include:

* The IRS and Credit Counseling Agencies: 80 New Audits. New Tax Exemptions. What Does It All Mean?

Speaker: Jeffrey Tenenbaum, Venable

* The Taxable Non-Profit: Pros & Cons

Speaker: Mark Guimond, AADMO Executive Director

Jeffrey S. Tenenbaum, Esq., Partner, Venable LLP

* Properly Operating as a Tax Exempt Organization or Taxable Non-Profit - New Liability and Legal Nightmares

Speaker: Brian Albritton, Esq., Partner Holland & Knight LLC

* International Credit Counseling

Speaker: Malcolm Hurlston, Foundation for Credit Counseling, UK

* Who Went Bankrupt In 2006? A Demographic Analysis of Debtors

Speaker: Leslie Linfield, Esq., The Institute for Financial Literacy

* Effective Financial Literacy Delivery Methods

Speaker: Jeanne Hogarth, Program Manager, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

* EOUST Briefing on the Current Status of Bankruptcy Reform, Credit Counseling and Debtor Education

Speaker: Henry Hobbs, Executive Office for United States Trustees

* Valuing Account Portfolios

Speaker: Paul Baumann, PCE Valuations

The AADMO Spring Conference program and registration information can be found at www.AADMO.org.

AADMO is working diligently to ensure the continued operation and viability of credit counseling and debt management organizations. AADMO is the only trade association for credit counseling that provides important education and information for the entire industry.

ABOUT AADMO

AADMO is the largest trade association for the credit counseling and debt management industry. Nationwide, the majority of licensed and legally operating credit counseling agencies are members of AADMO.

AADMO members are consumer credit counseling agencies, debt management organizations, bankruptcy pre-filing counselors, credit counselors, personal finance educators, credit and debt information educators, bankruptcy debtor education providers, consumer lawyers and many others.

AADMO is the only trade association to have held state law compliance workshops with the New York State Banking Department and the California Department of Corporations upon enactment of their respective laws governing credit counseling and AADMO is the only trade association for the industry to publish a formal summary of state laws that has been reviewed by state regulators.

ABOUT DR. ROBERT D. MANNING

Robert D. Manning, PhD is Research Professor and Director of the Center for Consumer Financial Services, and past Caroline Werner Gannett Chair of the Humanities, Rochester Institute of Technology. Author of the widely acclaimed Credit Card Nation: America's Dangerous Addiction to Credit (2000), which received the 2001 Robert Ezra Park Award for Outstanding Contribution to Sociological Practice, Dr. Manning is a specialist in the deregulation of retail banking, consumer finance, comparative economic development, immigration, and globalization. His path breaking study, "Credit Cards on Campus," was published by Consumer Federation of America in 1999 and received the 2000 Morris Rosenberg Research Award for distinguished scholarship from the District of Columbia Sociology Society.

More recently, Dr. Manning's contributions to the "Banking on Misery" special issue of Southern Exposure Magazine received the prestigious 2004 George K. Polk Award for investigative journalism and the 2004 Harry Chapin Award for Poverty Research. It has led to numerous federal and state legislative initiatives including the College Student Credit Card Protection Act which received bipartisan support in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. It was also featured as CBS Eye on America and Sixty Minutes II programs in spring 2001. In 2007, he was honored as the 12th Frank J. Battisti Memorial Lecturer by the Case Western Reserve School of Law for his outstanding contribution to public policy and the law. A documentary based on his research, In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Bursts at www.indebtwetrust.com, was released in March 2007. Dr. Manning's popular website includes research, public policy analyses, and educational programs at www.creditcardnation.com.

Dr. Manning's most recent study, LIVING WITH DEBT, was published by LendingTree.com in October 2005 and is available at www.LendingTree.com/livingwithdebt/. It will be published as Borrowing The American Dream in 2008. His next book on personal finance, Give Yourself Credit!, is a practical guide for the most effective use of consumer credit and will be published in winter 2008. A past Senior Fulbright Lecturer to Mexico and specialist in immigration and "free trade" economic development policies, the Cary Press will publish his Globalization and Democracy: American Leadership or Autocracy in the New World Order? in Summer 2006. Dr. Manning's current book project, Credit Card World, examines the economic, political, and cultural impacts of the global expansion of consumer credit and debt.

Dr. Manning's research has been widely reported in the U.S. and international media including Sixty Minutes II, ABC World News, ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings, ABC's Good Morning America (Diane Sawyer), Bloomberg Financial News, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, CNBC, CNN Headline News, CNN Morning News, CNN Evening News (Lou Dobbs), CNN Burden of Proof, C-SPAN, FOX Evening News, O'Reilly Factor, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, MSNBC with Brian Williams, Jim Lehrer News Hour (PBS), National Public Radio (All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition), Voice of America, Jim Bohannon Show, Australian Public Radio, British Broadcast Corporation, Canadian Public Radio, Reuters International, and Swedish Public Radio.

Dr. Manning received his PhD from the Program in Comparative International Development of The Johns Hopkins University in 1989, a MA in U.S. Economic History from Northern Illinois University in 1981, and is a 1979 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Duke University.

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