News Headlines
Taken from the front pages of newspapers around the nation, News Headlines is your source for consumer issues. Access current and archived News Headlines collected by Consumer Action. News Headlines are listed in reverse chronological order, grouped by year, then month to allow for easier browsing.
- Consumer Action conducts Wireless Education (Chinese)
- Unauthorized phone charges cost Americans $2 B a year
- The latest in credit card scams
- Medicare age hike could save billions
- Fliers want bag fees refunded if luggage delayed
- D.C. alters foreclosure law, adds consumer rights
- Budget solution: Squeeze the middle
- Ripping off needy seniors through the ‘chained CPI’
- In the Google-Facebook race, privacy will determine the winner
- Where a minimum-wage increase would bite
- Denied a loan? Get a free credit score
- Health officials ease requirements for insurance exchanges
- Phone apps let users outsmart law
- Boomers who work longer get more from Social Security
- As smartphones proliferate, some cut computer cord
- Odd consumer behavior files
- Turning your hobby into a profitable small business
- Credit unions growing commercial lending business
- Homeowner associations foreclose on residents
- Scammers claim luxury cars as farm vehicles for cheap insurance
- Line is blurry on what you can deduct from taxes when vacation and work overlap
- Netflix criticizes new Internet billing by bits
- Home office 101: The ins and outs of taxes and regulations
- New housing program is aimed at the unemployed
- Air service cutbacks hit hardest where recession did
- Sniping at charges for swiping debt cards
- Hung up on sky-high pay phone rates
- Five tips for making the most out of your 401(k) plan
- Phone hacking: a new worry on the user security front
- Verizon settles lawsuit for $20M over policies for disabled workers
- Pros, cons of Facebook’s new video chat
- Obama extends help to unemployed homeowners to 12 months
- GM offers free auto insurance to new-car buyers
- HUD to pay $62 million to Louisiana homeowners
- Poor often don’t know benefit of banks
- What’s behind GOP attack on product-safety database?
- 7 ways to save on everyday expenses
- Deciphering Verizon’s smartphone data caps
- Realtime search on hiatus
- Agency builder, not yet its leader
- What’s behind GOP attack on product-safety database?
- Borrowers take banks to court after loan modification mishaps
- With debit swipe fees capped, new bank fees on horizon
- HUD to give $1 billion to struggling homeowners
- Smartphones unlocked: a closer look at software updates
- The weakest link
- Fees ... and more fees
- Why economists see a stronger second half for 2011
- Justices reject ban on violent video games for children
- Tips for selling your home in down market
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