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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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2017

August

Aug 22, 2017

• Opinions & Editorials | Let consumers sue companies
• Headlines | FBI warns of spreading W-2 email theft scheme
• Headlines | Aging parents with lots of stuff, and children who don’t want it
• Headlines | Trump moves to impede consumer lawsuits against nursing homes
• Headlines | Student loan debt crushing older Americans too
• Headlines | How to take care of your clothes

Aug 21, 2017

• Headlines | Labor groups step up pressure on Trump to deliver
• Headlines | Crowded TV marketplace gets ready for three tech giants
• Headlines | Could you live off Social Security alone?
• Headlines | Five new rights Congress could create for airplane passengers

Aug 19, 2017

• Headlines | Wells Fargo troubles shift from phony bank accounts to real ones

Aug 18, 2017

• Headlines | Americans are buying more food at Walmart
• Headlines | Former Corinthian students will get debt relief
• Headlines | Are you plagued by a serial get-out-of-debt disorder?

Aug 17, 2017

• Chinese Headlines | FDA halted implementation of calorie labeling rule (Chinese)
• Chinese Headlines | Texan’s LINE account been hacked (Chinese)
• Chinese Headlines | Taiwan Red Cross committed fraud in misusing donation accounts (Chinese)
• Chinese Headlines | Comcast $10M improper charges-case moved forward (Chinese)
• Headlines | Five things Wells Fargo account victims should do
• Headlines | How to make your house a smart home
• Headlines | Five major differences between federal and private student loans

Aug 16, 2017

• Chinese Headlines | Job seekers became victims of ‘recruitment scam’
• Headlines | New online scam targets tax preparers
• Headlines | Zillow says consumer agency is threatening legal action over its ads
• Headlines | Downpayment and closing-cost help for low-income homebuyers
• Headlines | Is LinkedIn trying to protect your data — or hoard it?

Aug 15, 2017

• Chinese Headlines | Trump’s plan of tax reform might sink the real estate market (Chinese)
• Opinions & Editorials | Don’t mess with contact lens consumer rights
• Headlines | Drug companies growing less generous in helping patients pay for meds
• Headlines | As prices rise, mortgage lenders make it easier to buy a house
• Headlines | Freedom from cable isn’t free

Aug 14, 2017

• Headlines | The whys of increasing inequality: A graphical portrait
• Headlines | Six foods that marketers want you to think are healthy
• Headlines | How a conservative TV giant is ridding itself of regulation
• Headlines | Heatlh insurers get more time to calculate 2018 increases

Aug 13, 2017

• Headlines | Two online security steps you should stop putting off

Aug 12, 2017

• Chinese Headlines | Beware of malicious software - take caution when opening emails (Chinese)
• Headlines | Consumer debt is at a record high. Haven’t we learned?

Aug 11, 2017

• Headlines | Facebook Watch is company’s new plan for online video
• Headlines | Trump officials begin review of Obama emissions standards
• Headlines | Major rental-home companies set to merge

Aug 10, 2017

• Chinese Headlines | Trump’s immigration reform plan has pros and cons (Chinese)
• Headlines | The costs of deferring your student loans
• Headlines | Heart and asthma monitors? There’s an app for that
• Headlines | Fannie and Freddie will stick with FICO formula
• Opinions & Editorials | Closing the courthouse door

Aug 09, 2017

• Headlines | 2 Senators question effects of a reverse mortgage proposal
• Headlines | Chips can fall out of credit cards, leaving consumers vulnerable
• Headlines | Millennials: Don’t fear the market
• Headlines | Wells Fargo, awash in scandal, faces violations over car insurance refunds

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