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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

September

Sep 12, 2006

• Headlines | Asthma attacks spike when school begins

Sep 11, 2006

• Headlines | When choice of doctor drives up other bills
• Headlines | Higher income will pay higher Medicare premiums
• Headlines | High-priced ARMs hit minorities hard
• Headlines | Nightmare mortgages due to adjust

Sep 10, 2006

• Headlines | On payday, many GIs pay back

Sep 09, 2006

• Headlines | Opt out of uninvited mortgage offers

Sep 08, 2006

• Headlines | Home loan data confirms serious fair lending concerns
• Headlines | Xanga to pay $1 million in children’s privacy case
• Headlines | Some housing pessimism from real estate brokers

Sep 07, 2006

• Headlines | Spending tax dollars to collect tax dollars
• Headlines | Cancer-linked chemicals removed from nail polish
• Headlines | Don’t keep all your data in one stash
• Headlines | Just about anyone can get phone records
• Headlines | Health care privacy breaches widespread

Sep 06, 2006

• Headlines | Study finds higher loan rates by region
• Headlines | Life gets easier for junk-fax peddlers
• Headlines | Illness persists in 9/11 workers, study finds

Sep 05, 2006

• Headlines | Nursing home inspections full of corruption
• Headlines | Putting faces on minimum wage existences

Sep 04, 2006

• Headlines | Some ID theft not for profit but to get a job
• Headlines | Knock, knock—IRS sends collectors calling

Sep 03, 2006

• Headlines | Protection for home buyers put on hold

Sep 01, 2006

• Headlines | US DOE provided student loan data to FBI
• Headlines | New York issues guide to 9/11 illnesses
• Headlines | Could program trading threaten stock market?
• Headlines | Tax filers can claim refund on phone excise tax

August

Aug 31, 2006

• Headlines | Predatory lenders prey on U.S. troops
• Headlines | Storm passes, but insurance worries stay
• Headlines | Cross-border prescription drugs can be counterfeit

Aug 30, 2006

• Headlines | Scammer’s check gets innocent man arrested
• Headlines | Ranks of uninsured Americans grow
• Headlines | Men and women earned less in 2005 than 2004
• Headlines | Incomes decline for young college grads

Aug 29, 2006

• Headlines | Shoppers gather data for consumer price index

Aug 28, 2006

• Headlines | Being executor is time-consuming—and perhaps risky
• Headlines | Shredding for the college set
• Headlines | Will FCC hang up on new Verizon surcharge?
• Headlines | Credit help gets a makeover

Aug 25, 2006

• Headlines | Credit card holds can bedevil vacationers
• Headlines | Apple to recall 1.8 million notebook batteries

Aug 24, 2006

• Headlines | I.R.S. warns of tax-collection swindlers
• Headlines | AT&T sues over unauthorized access to customer data

Aug 23, 2006

• Headlines | Even a few extra pounds can kill
• Headlines | Student debt crisis: Are there solutions?
• Headlines | Unwinding the credit boom

Aug 22, 2006

• Headlines | Welfare: Many left behind in reforms
• Headlines | Employers address mental illness in workplace
• Headlines | Easier to donate IRA money to charity
• Headlines | Right to know if vehicles have ‘black box’

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