Updated: January 2013

Internet and Online Services

Consumer Action’s web site allows visitors to search a comprehensive consumer protection and financial literacy information center. Updated daily, our free site offers consumer headline news, book reviews, a comprehensive library of consumer publications, a consumer resource directory, an online “help desk” and the Take@ction advocacy database of national, state and local elected officials, and more. The site tallies more than three million visitor sessions per year.

Consumer Action’s online presence is evolving and expanding. The outreach department is creating new ways to use the Internet to communicate with and support the 9,000-plus community-based and non-profit organizations in its education network. The organization has also launched a number of topic-specific sites, which include: financial literacy, housing, and insurance, and for the Healthy Children Organizing Project, a Consumer Action project to protect children from environmental toxins. These sites can be accessed from Consumer Action’s home page via the pull down menu "Select a Project or Program."

You can get the latest site updates by activating your free online membership or by subscribing to one or more of the site’s news feeds.