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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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2019

April

Apr 18, 2019

• Opinions & Editorials | Why you can no longer get lost in the crowd
• Headlines | Uber vs. Lyft: Which ride-hailing app is better
• Headlines | Could debt collectors send you texts, emails?
• Headlines | No-income, no-asset mortgages are back
• Headlines | Military members could save tens of millions of dollars on student loans
• Headlines | Same-sex couples face higher rejection and worse mortgage rates

Apr 17, 2019

• Opinions & Editorials | Opinion: Privacy is too big to understand
• Headlines | Uber fixes electric bike breaking problem
• Headlines | Student loans shouldn’t keep you from investing
• Headlines | Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play recall leaves parents frustrated
• Spanish Headlines | Toma hijo, tu tarjeta de crédito
• Spanish Headlines | Algunos de los celulares plegables de Samsung se rompen

Apr 16, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | Social media poses a threat to privacy - Americans still use it amid complaints (Chinese)
• Headlines | Vets could be first to pay as DeVos rolls back for-profit college oversight
• Headlines | Mulvaney’s master class in destroying the government from within
• Headlines | Your student loan servicer will call you back in a year. Sorry.
• Spanish Headlines | Cómo leer tu informe de crédito

Apr 15, 2019

• Headlines | Next year’s taxes may cost more unless taxpayers act now
• Headlines | Veterans could be harmed by lack of for-profit college oversight
• Headlines | American Airlines cancels 737 Max flights through Aug. 19
• Headlines | Streaming TV has become a pricey, complicated mess
• Spanish Headlines | Lyft retira bicicletas eléctricas tras problemas con frenos

Apr 14, 2019

• Spanish Headlines | Empleadores abandonan la ‘tolerancia cero’ en pruebas de drogas en la era de la marihuana legal
• Spanish Headlines | SU BOLSILLO: Al planificar su jubilación no cometa este error con el Seguro Social

Apr 13, 2019

• Headlines | Why you should check your Social Security estimates
• Headlines | Google’s Sensorvault: A boon for law enforcement. How it works.

Apr 12, 2019

• Headlines | Amazon workers are listening to what you tell Alexa
• Headlines | Millennials say college wasn’t worth it
• Headlines | Hand sanitizer is still under FDA investigation
• Headlines | States say DeVos is hurting efforts to police loan servicers
• Spanish Headlines | Southwest saca 737 Max de calendario del verano
• Spanish Headlines | Dilema para los padres: ¿está creando el auge del streaming un exceso de programación infantil?

Apr 11, 2019

• Headlines | Do you know what you’ve given up?
• Headlines | With $13 billion in disaster relief stuck in gridlock, lawmakers head to recess
• Headlines | How Facebook is trying to stop its own algorithms from doing their job
• Headlines | Net neutrality bill sails through the House but faces uncertain future
• Headlines | Dark web monitoring
• Spanish Headlines | Miles de empleados de Amazon escuchan lo que la gente le dice a Alexa
• Spanish Headlines | FDA investiga posible riesgo de convulsiones por uso de cigarrillos electrónicos
• Spanish Headlines | Disney anuncia precio y fecha de nuevo servicio de “streaming”

Apr 10, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | Feds Charge 24 In Alleged $1.2 Billion Medicare Fraud Scheme (Chinese)
• Opinions & Editorials | Both major political parties have failed to curb dangerous pesticides
• Headlines | Employers, health insurers using apps to track your pregnancy
• Headlines | Bank of America to raise minimum wage to $20 an hour by 2021
• Headlines | CFPB says ‘all options on table’ for enforcing Wells Fargo order
• Headlines | Military personnel caught in crossfire over lending law
• Spanish Headlines | Facebook lanza actualizaciones para combatir noticias falsas

Apr 09, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | Tip on how to handle fraudulent robocalls? (Chinese)
• Chinese Headlines | Alameda City A/B votes proposal draws public attention (Chinese)
• Headlines | Presidential campaigns are about to start texting you all the time

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