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.
- Health care prices hard to find
- Medical ID theft can kill you
- Where to stash your cash
- Auto incentives counter fuel prices
- Beware MBNA credit card changes
- Same old scam, every month
- Check bounced? Be scared
- AOL offers customers free phone numbers
- Jose Guillen needs a bank account
- Forbes lists best places for business/careers
- Report finds drug marketers put patients at risk
- Student loans - a life sentence
- Homeowners taking more cash on re-fi
- Gas price dents sales of guzzlers
- How to amend your tax return
- Market-linked CDs: Know the risk
- New payday lending site for consumers
- Bush seeks to raise car fuel standards
- Real estate a handy piggy bank
- A savings checkup for a healthy future
- Wedding bells and bills
- ‘Til debt do us part
- Congressional finger-pointing at gas prices
- House panel dumps ‘net neutrality’
- Fewer fined by airport security
- Consumers need credit card pay-off info
- Health insurance as luxury item
- Strapped insurers flee coastal areas
- Overdraft loan programs cost consumers big time
- When good cell phones go bad
- Bush orders probe into gas prices
- House softens lobbying measure
- States eye data threat
- Easier than ever to verify resume facts
- Wealth building hurt by high-cost loans
- Psychology of ‘free’ online shipping
- Ditching their credit cards?
- Money for kids traveling abroad
- California fights National Uniformity for Food Act
- Big Mother replaces ‘Big Brother’
- Debt collectors ask to auto-dial cellphones
- Gov. Schwarzenegger opposes food-safety bill
- What’s the 411? This one’s free
- Medicare drug plan not always a bargain
- Banks get nastier on fees
- Bankruptcy filings on rebound
- E-filing conversion progress taxes IRS
- Travel restrictions, fees frustrate travelers
- No tax deadline if you’re owed refund
- Paying taxes with your credit card can be expensive
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