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Consumer Action updates daily, headline news from a variety of news sources. The archive provides access in reverse chronological order, grouped by year, than month to allow for easier browsing.

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2006

August

Aug 15, 2006

• Headlines | Dell to recall 4 million laptop batteries
• Headlines | Air travel restrictions and medications

Aug 14, 2006

• Headlines | Skin cancer in young people tied to tan salons
• Headlines | Shop Smart magazine launched by Consumer Reports
• Headlines | Personal computer prices hit new lows

Aug 13, 2006

• Headlines | Debts forgiven, income taxes increased
• Headlines | Trend: Homeowners paying higher rates to cash out
• Headlines | At your service, right?

Aug 11, 2006

• Headlines | Back-to-budget shopping
• Headlines | Tenancy-in-common owner’s refinance blues
• Headlines | Immigration and jobs link Is disputed
• Headlines | Call for ‘urgent reform’ of higher education
• Headlines | Baby boomers make rich targets

Aug 10, 2006

• Headlines | Cars are safer, but not drivers
• Headlines | For some, renting makes more sense

Aug 09, 2006

• Headlines | Government spying on your bank accounts
• Headlines | The sport of credit card rate surfing
• Headlines | Fees make balance transfers less appealing
• Headlines | National resurgence of branch banking
• Headlines | Fed calls a halt to raising interest rates
• Headlines | Face of AOL searcher No. 4417749 exposed

Aug 08, 2006

• Headlines | An insider’s guide to food labels
• Headlines | Public pension plans face billions in shortages
• Headlines | AOL removes search data on Web users

Aug 07, 2006

• Headlines | Shopping carts not a safe place for kids
• Headlines | At online stores, an offer to chat
• Headlines | Trend: sharp property tax increases
• Headlines | Retirement tax breaks permanently extended

Aug 05, 2006

• Headlines | House bill reforms FHA lending programs

Aug 04, 2006

• Headlines | Next frontier for spammers: text messaging
• Headlines | Data breaches: Congress still dithering
• Headlines | Senate approves pension protection bill
• Headlines | More airline passengers getting bumped
• Headlines | Senate rejects minimum wage bill

Aug 03, 2006

• Headlines | Get Human website fakes out phone trees
• Headlines | Guard against ID theft
• Headlines | Cybercrooks find new ways to invade all PCs
• Headlines | Students warned about networking sites
• Headlines | Sales tax holiday for back to school shoppers

Aug 02, 2006

• Headlines | California sues payday loan business
• Headlines | New way to password your credit cards
• Headlines | AOL users get free email

Aug 01, 2006

• Headlines | American Express revamps rewards program
• Headlines | Best credit cards for college kids
• Headlines | California urged to cap military payday loans
• Headlines | Cingular adds surcharge for older handsets

July

Jul 31, 2006

• Headlines | House overwhelmingly passes FHA reform legislation
• Headlines | ‘Spoofing’ fools caller ID systems
• Headlines | Banks offer customers credit card perks
• Headlines | No limit credit cards may hurt credit score

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