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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

October

Oct 22, 2006

• Headlines | Shop around before you get sick

Oct 20, 2006

• Headlines | VISA publishes interchange merchant fees
• Headlines | Feds keep losing your data

Oct 19, 2006

• Headlines | Two held for stealing homes in ‘squatter scam’
• Headlines | More Californians risk foreclosure on homes
• Headlines | IRS cracks down on church politicking
• Headlines | Blue Cross settlement ‘window dressing’
• Headlines | Immigrants sending $45 billion home

Oct 18, 2006

• Headlines | No brakes on credit card fees
• Headlines | Initiatives to help people stay healthy
• Headlines | Social Security payments to rise 3.3% in ‘07
• Headlines | Customer call centers use ‘emotion detection’

Oct 17, 2006

• Headlines | People still seeking bankrutpcy protection
• Headlines | FTC hangs up on telemarketers’ pitch

Oct 16, 2006

• Headlines | Prescription for health care change

Oct 15, 2006

• Headlines | Climbing out of debt is difficult process

Oct 14, 2006

• Headlines | All crashes should be as good

Oct 13, 2006

• Headlines | Vocational training back in vogue
• Headlines | Real estate groups to stop blocking rival listings
• Headlines | Binge shoppers risk everything for a fix

Oct 12, 2006

• Headlines | Whatever happened to customer service?
• Headlines | Family, friends, neighbors can help seniors evade scams
• Headlines | Credit card charges crimp consumers
• Headlines | Need payday loan protections for all borrowers
• Headlines | Credit cards confusing, misleading, says GAO

Oct 11, 2006

• Headlines | Natural gas to be cheaper

Oct 10, 2006

• Headlines | Tick. Tick. The mortgage time-bomb
• Headlines | Report faults FDA on drug safety
• Headlines | Cost of life insurance drops significantly
• Headlines | Credit cards for small, quick purchases?

Oct 09, 2006

• Headlines | Foreclosure can be foiled

Oct 08, 2006

• Headlines | Store-issued plastic—for better or worse

Oct 06, 2006

• Headlines | Instant messages, lingering paper trail
• Headlines | U.S. savings rate keeps falling
• Headlines | More car buyers use Internet to shop

Oct 05, 2006

• Headlines | Housing discrimination by Corcoran Group alleged
• Headlines | Health-care homework headache

Oct 04, 2006

• Headlines | Mortgage applications rebound
• Headlines | Lousy service often will send customers away
• Headlines | You can fight cell phone spam

Oct 03, 2006

• Headlines | Across nation, housing costs rise as burden
• Headlines | Study your employer’s health options carefully
• Headlines | California appeals court: Banks can’t seize tax refunds
• Headlines | Traffic, housing costs reshaping commutes

Oct 02, 2006

• Headlines | California ends secrecy about meat recalls
• Headlines | Schools give student data to banks
• Headlines | College credit can mean long-term hardship
• Headlines | Constituent messages not reaching Capitol Hill

Oct 01, 2006

• Headlines | Critics riled that teen book plugs makeup
• Headlines | Mortgage income verification targets fraud

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