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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

July

Jul 18, 2006

• Headlines | Preventing kids’ backover deaths
• Headlines | SEC eyes elderly free lunch scams
• Headlines | The most recalled cars of 2006

Jul 17, 2006

• Headlines | Phishers find easy pickings on social sites
• Headlines | Minimum wage push pays off?
• Headlines | Bush administration plans medicare changes
• Headlines | Savvy seniors more likely to be conned

Jul 14, 2006

• Headlines | House renews 1965 Voting Rights Act
• Headlines | e-Passports: Ready or not here they come
• Headlines | Transferring your cell phone contract

Jul 13, 2006

• Headlines | Privacy expert urges free credit monitoring
• Headlines | Federal toxics bill could wipe out state protections
• Headlines | Federal protection for consumers

Jul 12, 2006

• Headlines | Read the fine print before charging abroad
• Headlines | Uninsured pay 60% more for prescription drugs
• Headlines | Who pays for Internet superhighway?
• Headlines | Data miners dig a little deeper

Jul 11, 2006

• Headlines | Identity theft increase tied to meth users
• Headlines | IRS warns of scam ‘phishing’ e-mails
• Headlines | Medicare drug plans info often wrong
• Headlines | Regional carriers’ wireless alternatives
• Headlines | Five ways to destroy your credit

Jul 10, 2006

• Headlines | Virtual checkbook: The next generation
• Headlines | Retailers want a place in your wallet
• Headlines | Fed credit card report conclusions questioned
• Headlines | 10 needed changes to rules and fees

Jul 07, 2006

• Headlines | ‘Orwellian’ college database idea widely assailed
• Headlines | Citizen rules eased for Medicare

Jul 06, 2006

• Headlines | Low grades for proposed college student database
• Headlines | Drivers warned that ‘insurance score’ can cost them
• Headlines | AARP: Who’s guarding vulnerable from court guardians?
• Headlines | Medical costs expected to jump
• Headlines | Price discrimination metes out rough justice
• Headlines | Debunking myths about couples and credit

Jul 05, 2006

• Headlines | Debt collectors play rough
• Headlines | Study documents Tylenol liver toxicity
• Headlines | Politics deflated California’s ‘Car Buyer’s Bill of Rights’
• Headlines | Disgruntled customers fight back on Internet

Jul 04, 2006

• Headlines | Prying into your pills: Proper or not?
• Headlines | ID thief finds easy money hard to resist
• Headlines | Fat people not more jolly, study says

Jul 03, 2006

• Headlines | Backyard fireworks injuries on rise
• Headlines | Internet phone pressures Bell-cos to lower rates
• Headlines | Anti-penny push provokes passions
• Headlines | Poll: Founding fathers’ values still strong
• Headlines | Northeast flood victims may be uninsured

Jul 02, 2006

• Headlines | Lawsuit claims bureaus’ practice lowers credit score

Jul 01, 2006

• Headlines | MasterCard criticized on bank fees by Europe

June

Jun 30, 2006

• Headlines | Medicare proof test threatens coverage for many
• Headlines | Lawmakers: phone records database incomplete

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