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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.
- Headlines | Asthma attacks spike when school begins
- 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
- Headlines | On payday, many GIs pay back
- Headlines | Opt out of uninvited mortgage offers
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Headlines | Nursing home inspections full of corruption
- Headlines | Putting faces on minimum wage existences
- Headlines | Some ID theft not for profit but to get a job
- Headlines | Knock, knock—IRS sends collectors calling
- Headlines | Protection for home buyers put on hold
- 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
- Headlines | Predatory lenders prey on U.S. troops
- Headlines | Storm passes, but insurance worries stay
- Headlines | Cross-border prescription drugs can be counterfeit
- 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
- Headlines | Shoppers gather data for consumer price index
- 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
- Headlines | Credit card holds can bedevil vacationers
- Headlines | Apple to recall 1.8 million notebook batteries
- Headlines | I.R.S. warns of tax-collection swindlers
- Headlines | AT&T sues over unauthorized access to customer data
- Headlines | Even a few extra pounds can kill
- Headlines | Student debt crisis: Are there solutions?
- Headlines | Unwinding the credit boom
- 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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