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Consumer Action has been a champion of underrepresented consumers nationwide since 1971. A nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, Consumer Action focuses on financial education that empowers low to moderate income and limited-English-speaking consumers to financially prosper.
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What's on this page?
On this page, you can browse Consumer Action's own press releases as well as our custom digest of daily consumer news headlines from major U.S. news organizations. Click here for Spanish headlines.
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Press Releases
- Consumer Action guides consumers to avoid investing costs, pitfalls
- Consumer Action condemns the House’s vote to repeal class actions
- Consumer Action opposes Congress’s attack on class actions
- Webinar offers advice about responding to debt collection calls
- Consumer Action applauds new arbitration rule
Headlines
- Toys R Us plans to hire thousands of seasonal workers despite bankruptcy
- Facebook to turn over russian-linked ads to Congress
- Wall Street’s watchdog fails own counsel on disclosing cyberattacks
- Some people learn to code in their 60s, 70s or 80s
- What you need to know about filing the FAFSA for 2018
News Video
- The FCC moved to undo net neutrality. So what’s next?
- The secret powerhouse processing millions in fraud
- What happens to your house when you file for bankruptcy
- The stories behind the unseen eviction crisis
- How to avoid this spring break scam
Opinions & Editorials
- Equifax shows Republicans must end attacks on financial regulation
- How the CFPB should respond to Equifax
- Making sure your help gets to Hurricane Harvey’s victims
- The Trump administration’s ongoing attack on workers
- Harvey’s burdens will fall hardest on the poor
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Spanish Headlines
- El ubicuo cajero automático cumple 50 años
- EEUU: Comisión de Valores revela hackeo de archivos
- ¿Qué hacemos mal con nuestras finanzas?
- Apple reconoce que nuevo reloj tiene problemas de conectividad
- ¿Los agentes fronterizos quieren revisar su computadora portátil y su teléfono? deben tener una orde
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Chinese Headlines
- California Senate passes SB54 sanctuary state bill (Chinese)
- New California driving license law passed - effective from 2020 full license at age 21 (Chinese)
- Toy companies shares fall as Toys ‘R’ Us files for bankruptcy (Chinese)
- Obamacare premium predicted to rise 15% in 2018 (Chinese)
- Amazon’s next goal is getting into the global cable channels (Chinese)
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Spanish Press Release
- La mujer que quiere humanizar a Uber
- California LifeLine program helps low-income consumers (Spanish)
- Consumer Action launches national wireless education initiative with support from AT&T (Spanish)
- National Lifeline Awareness Week (Spanish)
- California Lifeline Program Helps Keep People Connected (Spanish)
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Chinese Press Release
- California LifeLine program helps low-income consumers (Chinese)
- Consumer Action launches national wireless education initiative with support from AT&T (Chinese)
- National Lifeline Awareness Week (Chinese)
- Wireless fraud uncovered in Asian community (Chinese)
- Bank failure and FDIC deposit insurance (Chinese)
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