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.
- Best cell phones for kids
- Alternative credit scoring gains support
- Learn from these financial mistakes
- Health hazards: Computer records get spilled
- Coastal insurance crisis hits dream homes
- The housing median is the message
- $9 fee just for paying credit card bill online
- Your cell phone as a wallet
- Senator Levin pledges to fight credit card companies
- More controls urged on payday lenders
- Court nullifies Maryland county anti-predatory loan law
- Banks urged to offer alternatives to payday loans
- No confidence in consumer-driven health care plans
- Hated ‘clamshell’ packaging irks and can harm
- Supreme Court hears states’ rights banking case
- Great toys that won’t break your budget
- Cell phone fraud is phone owner’s nightmare
- Gift card caution from OCC
- Steer clear of tax refund anticipation loans
- Living will should spell out specifics
- What makes an antitrust case?
- Gift cards with strings attached
- Student loan bankers on edge
- Cellphone crib sheet
- Spending more than we make
- Low down on low-doc mortgages
- Healthcare looms as key issue for state employers
- Fees drop for 529 college savings plans
- Toys test: Best educational toys
- Toymakers’ marketing tricks
- The secret auto safety files
- Young and in debt
- How to shop smart for the holidays
- Check-clearing policies create overdrafts
- Holidays bring out online scammers
- ‘RESPA police’ help with builder disputes
- Consumer Reports offers debit card tips
- Tips for pulling cash from your home
- Help your car survive the hols
- 20 web sites to help you find bargains
- Working families get stiffed at check cashers
- ‘Hospital-based’ clinics can charge more
- IRS to simplify 1040 by 2009
- Phishing targets seniors
- Credit cards target small businesses
- Web shopping tops for electronics
- Home sellers offer ‘buy-down’ savings
- Red meat may raise breast cancer risk
- Freezing your credit file
- Truth about job-hunting myths
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