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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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2018

October

Oct 17, 2018

• Headlines | It’s an especially advantageous time to ask for a raise
• Headlines | Delayed Obama-era student debt relief rule to take effect
• Spanish Headlines | Apple permite que usuarios de algunos países vean datos recopilados por la empresa

Oct 16, 2018

• Opinions & Editorials | Student loan reforms will make education better for Americans
• Headlines | Student loans—how employers might help
• Headlines | If you’re a ‘non-elite,’ expect to wait
• Spanish Headlines | Facebook pedirá identidad a anunciantes políticos británicos

Oct 15, 2018

• Headlines | How Sears went from boom to bust
• Headlines | Getting the lowest rate when mortgage rates are rising
• Headlines | Cybersecurity experts support data beach disclosure law
• Headlines | Amid high fees and record profits, banks want ‘regulatory relief’

Oct 14, 2018

• Chinese Headlines | Walmart sued $65 million for not providing seating to cashiers

Oct 13, 2018

• Chinese Headlines | Fake DMV website has tricked consumers to pay fees online (Chinese)
• Headlines | Financial companies rack up complaints, but good luck finding them
• Headlines | What you need to know for smooth flying

Oct 12, 2018

• Chinese Headlines | Social security will increase by 2.8% next year, tens of thousands of retirees will receive an average of $39 more per month (Chinese)
• Chinese Headlines | A 5-cent increase for First-Class stamps is the largest increase in 27 years (Chinese)
• Headlines | Made in the USA: Online disinformation
• Headlines | Investigating a major auto loan company
• Headlines | This 36-year-old got $50,000 of her student loans Forgiven
• Headlines | Millennials are also loading up on this kind of debt

Oct 11, 2018

• Headlines | Hurricane Michael prompts Freddic Mac to issue relief policies
• Headlines | Travelers teams up with Amazon to sell home security kits
• Headlines | Children’s allowances: Debit cards linked to parents’ phones
• Headlines | Experian credit freeze flaw may have revealed your PIN to fraudsters

Oct 10, 2018

• Chinese Headlines | Asian lady accused with immigration fraud - lawyers suggested complaints sent to Law Society (Chinese)
• Headlines | It’s better for companies to be transparent about privacy bugs
• Headlines | The future is creepy when everything becomes a computer
• Headlines | New reverse mortgage options available for homeowners
• Headlines | No-frill air fares are all the rage
• Spanish Headlines | Una falla en WhatsApp permitía el hackeo de cuentas con una llamada de video: reportes

Oct 09, 2018

• Headlines | American Airlines limits help for travelers with delayed, canceled flights
• Headlines | The government is rolling out 2-factor authentication
• Headlines | Pay off that mortgage before retiring
• Headlines | Obamacare premiums come down but could have been even lower

Oct 08, 2018

• Chinese Headlines | Google attempted to hide leak that exposed 500,000 poeple in Google Plus (Chinese)
• Headlines | Save big this season with pre-holiday credit-card strategies
• Headlines | 3 out of 4 Americans share Netflix, Amazon, Uber accounts
• Headlines | Worried your Facebook account has been cloned?
• Headlines | Navient considered settling. Then Trump won.

Oct 07, 2018

• Chinese Headlines | Amazon admitted that employees leaked customers information to vendors (Chinese)

Oct 06, 2018

• Chinese Headlines | High interest lenders can charge a 200% interest rate, consumers hope for a rate-cap measure on the ballot (Chinese)
• Chinese Headlines | SF officials announced implementation of SB1045 bill after it was passed (Chinese)

Oct 05, 2018

• Headlines | New tool for FAFSA completion
• Headlines | The super-rich really do avoid a lot of taxes
• Headlines | U.S. student loan debt reaches a staggering $1.53 trillion

Oct 04, 2018

• Headlines | Fitbit data used to charge 90-year-old man in stepdaughter’s killing
• Headlines | Teachers sue Navient, claiming student loan forgiveness failures
• Headlines | 10 years later: How the housing market has changed since the crash
• Spanish Headlines | EEUU planea revisar reglas sobre circulación de vehículos autónomos

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