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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

September

Sep 17, 2019

• Headlines | Americans’ struggles with medical bills a foreign concept in other countries
• Headlines | Why you should prioritize paying off student debt over saving for retirement
• Headlines | There’s a reason we don’t know much about AI
• Headlines | Walmart collecting old car seats in exchange for gift cards

Sep 16, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | Some elders from Massachusettes were defrauded of $250K from phone fraud (Chinese)
• Opinions & Editorials | Should we love or hate ‘negative’ interest rates?
• Headlines | China’s TikTok social media app may be a bit misleading
• Headlines | Trump’s Wall Street rule rollback raises ‘too big to fail’ alarms
• Headlines | Counter services tipping: Who gives?

Sep 15, 2019

• Headlines | Consumer agency elects new chairman
• Headlines | How to avoid financial deadlock —or worse—after one spouse dies

Sep 13, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | The statewide rent control law is passed to the governor for signature (Chinese)
• Chinese Headlines | Bill AB5 gig-work bill passed -the newspaper industry sees challenges ahead (Chinese)
• Headlines | Scammers look for vulnerability, and find it in older people
• Headlines | Woman hospitalized after using face cream imported from Mexico
• Headlines | How wiping out $1.5 trillion in student debt would boost the economy

Sep 12, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | California homeowners can get cyber protection insurance - preventing hackers demanding ransom (Chinese)
• Chinese Headlines | The braking issue of GM cars caused 100 accidents - 3.8M vehicles recalled (Chinese)
• Headlines | Trump’s housing finance plan will make mortgages more expensive, groups say
• Headlines | Blue skies ahead for cheap flights, but read the fine print
• Headlines | Lawmakers want to give us back the right to sue companies
• Headlines | Think your credit card is safe in your wallet? Think again
• Headlines | California approves statewide rent control to ease housing crisis

Sep 11, 2019

• Opinions & Editorials | An opportunity to make corporations more pro-consumer
• Headlines | Millions eligible for free health insurance not receiving it
• Headlines | Average FICO credit score hits new high
• Headlines | FTC study finds median consumer class action claims rate is 9%
• Headlines | California passes landmark bill to remake gig economy

Sep 10, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | San Francisco offers PG&E $2.5B to acquire their electricity Infrastructure (Chinese)
• Chinese Headlines | Several DMV officers sold driver’s personal information to private companies for profit (Chinese)
• Chinese Headlines | Google & Facebook are being investigated. Why is the evil empire Microsoft unaffected? (Chinese)
• Headlines | Equifax adds extra step to claim $125 damage award
• Headlines | Nearly half of student loan borrowers aren’t prepared for payments
• Headlines | Juul warned over claims e-cigarette safer than smoking

Sep 09, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | 4000 users were affected by the Yahoo email crash (Chinese)
• Opinions & Editorials | CPFB head misguided in reliance on consumer education
• Headlines | How Apple stacked the app store with its own products
• Headlines | Facebook, Google face off against state attorneys general
• Headlines | Mortgage rates sink to 3-year lows on weak manufacturing data
• Headlines | Taking out a student loan is better than dropping out
• Spanish Headlines | ¿La gaseosa de dieta es más dañina que la azucarada?
• Spanish Headlines | Cómo proteger a los niños del ciberacoso
• Spanish Headlines | Estados abren nueva pesquisa antimonopolio contra Google
• Spanish Headlines | FDA advierte a Juul por afirmaciones sobre uso de vapeadores

Sep 08, 2019

• Spanish Headlines | Cientos de personas en todo el país se han enfermado a causa del ‘vaping’, incluyendo una muerte en el condado de L.A.
• Spanish Headlines | No cometa este gran error al saldar deudas

Sep 07, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | Fraudsters matched foreign students’ personality to demand ransom from parents (Chinese)
• Chinese Headlines | Google and Facebook were investigated by 8 states and DC on anti-trust (Chinese)
• Headlines | U.S. Treasury unveils plan to privatize Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

Sep 06, 2019

• Headlines | The human cost of Amazon’s fast, free shipping

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