b'2021 ANNUAL REPORT CFA also worked with partner organizations to urge the Department of Education (DOE) to deliver on the promise of public service loan forgiveness (PSLF) and helped encourage state and local advocates to submit comments to the DOE on the future of PSLF, resulting in nearly 45,000 comments from all 50 states.We continued to advocate for affirmative legislation that would protect consumers in the financial marketplace, including bills to protect consumers from predatory debt collectors (H.R. 2547), to ensure consumers have the option to pay for purchases with cash at retail locations (H.R. 4395), to end forced arbitration in consumer and employee contracts (H.R. 963/S. 505), and to crack down on predatory overdraft fees (H.R. 4277).Food and Agriculture: CFA continued to work with other consumer, public health and labor groups to call attention to opportunities to improve food safety, and public health more broadly, through regulatory reforms and consumer protections that enable more informed, healthier choices. As the coordinating body for the Safe Food Coalition, we worked with congressional allies to defeat dangerous legislation that would have deregulated meat and poultry inspection. We also worked with Congress to introduce legislation to reinstate country-of-origin labeling (COOL) for beef, and helped to halt progress on a bill that would have turned the U.S. Post Office into an alcohol delivery service. With coalition partners, we petitioned the Department of Agricultures Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) for enforceable, product-based pathogen standards for poultry, and helped to develop a consensus policy platform among consumer advocates, industry representatives, and academic researchers. FSIS has since announced an initiative to reform poultry inspection. FSIS also announced that it would soon disclose more of the whole genome sequencing data generated through federal inspection, a policy which CFA has taken the lead in advocating for. CFA met regularly with officials at FSIS and at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), encouraging FDA leadership to follow through on implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act, which the agency did in part through improved traceability and laboratory accreditation standards. CFA also urged FDA officials to ensure accurate labeling on all of the products and sales venues under its jurisdiction, and in particular, to crack down on 8 Consumer Federation of America'