nonprofit consumer-law advocacy organization
National Consumer Law Center
Industry Legal
A nonprofit legal advocacy organization focused on consumer law, debt, credit, utilities, student loans, and low-income consumer protection. National Consumer Law Center scores well because the model leaves more value with stakeholders and the institution is less hostile to people with weak bargaining power, and no current penalty outweighs that structure.
Why this matters: NCLC is a strong legal-help institution because it pushes legal expertise toward ordinary consumers instead of toward extractive creditors and platforms.
Letter grade A Good Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
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Evaluation Overview
A - Good
The score turns mainly on Extraction; no penalty currently dominates the evaluation.
Strengths
- Extraction8/10
- Ownership7/10
- Solidarity with the Unemployed7/7
Penalties
- No penalties applied in this version.
Evidence state
- ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
- Linked claims3
- Direct axis claims3
- Coverage3/9
Scoring Axes
| Axis | Score | Why this score |
|---|---|---|
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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7 / 10 |
NCLC is a nonprofit consumer-law organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with commercial legal-service platforms. Linked evidence
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Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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6 / 10 |
NCLC is a nonprofit consumer-law organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with commercial legal-service platforms. Linked evidence
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Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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8 / 10 |
NCLC is a nonprofit consumer-law organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with commercial legal-service platforms. Linked evidence
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Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at
7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence
shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling,
retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of
worker voice, or extreme turnover.
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5 / 7 |
NCLC is a nonprofit consumer-law organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with commercial legal-service platforms. Linked evidence
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Solidarity with the
Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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7 / 7 |
NCLC is a nonprofit consumer-law organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with commercial legal-service platforms. Linked evidence
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Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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7 / 7 |
NCLC is a nonprofit consumer-law organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with commercial legal-service platforms. Linked evidence
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Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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5 / 5 |
NCLC works against abusive consumer-market practices rather than profiting from them, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment. Linked evidence
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Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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5 / 5 |
NCLC produces consumer-law advocacy and resources on debt, credit, utilities, student loans, and related issues, supporting Product Integrity for ordinary legal needs. Linked evidence
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Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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5 / 5 |
NCLC is a nonprofit consumer-law organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with commercial legal-service platforms. Linked evidence
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Penalties
No penalties applied in this version.
Bonus Credits
No bonus credits applied in this version.
Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.
Medium 70/100
3 verified linked claims 3 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 3/9 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 20/20
3 verified linked claims
Source quality 12/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 6/18
3 direct claims across 9 active components
Dispute load 12/12
0 disputed claims on this entity
Recency 10/10
Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026
Reviewer status 7/12
Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding
Component coverage 3/10
3/9 evidence-bearing components have direct support
Evidence State
Evidence State
Claims and Sources
Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1NCLC is a nonprofit consumer-law organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with commercial legal-service platforms.
- NCLC AboutOfficial self-description · 68%
2NCLC produces consumer-law advocacy and resources on debt, credit, utilities, student loans, and related issues, supporting Product Integrity for ordinary legal needs.
- NCLC For ConsumersGeneral web source · 58%
3NCLC works against abusive consumer-market practices rather than profiting from them, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment.
- NCLC AboutOfficial self-description · 68%
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