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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.
Our diverse staff provides expert commentary on key consumer issues and current marketplace issues affecting low- to moderate-income and limited-English-speaking consumers. We may be able to offer you access to individuals who have contacted our hotline and given us permission to share their names and narratives.
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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 survey finds respondents want location data used only for the purpose for which it’s collected
- CFPB must live up to its name
- Consumer Action supports a financial transaction tax
- CFPB throws borrowers to the sharks
- Consumer Action joins coalition pushing back at drug patent abuse
Headlines
- Sallie Mae is expanding from student loans to credit cards
- How to protect your DNA data before and after taking an at-home test
- Sen. Warren to cancel up to $50k in student debt for most borrowers
- Social Security is staring at its first real shortfall in decades
- Florida company sued over sale of skimpy health plans
News Video
- Airline mechanics feel pressured to overlook potential safety problems
- Teach kids to be smart consumers
- Asians love digital banking, Americans not so much
- My husband got secret credit cards and maxxed them out
- Bay Area sudden spa closure triggered investigation (Chinese)
Opinions & Editorials
- We read 150 privacy policies. They were incomprehensible
- Help is almost here for retirement savers
- Why is America so far behind Europe on digital privacy?
- Is burnout real?
- When a traffic ticket costs $13,000
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Spanish Headlines
- Ford llama a reparar más de 1,3 millones de vehículos
- Videos manipulados, peligro para seguridad nacional en EEUU
- Florida: Autos autónomos podrán circular sin persona a bordo
- Correos podrían mostrar que Zuckerberg sabía de prácticas dudosas de privacidad en Facebook: WSJ
- Chase prueba su nuevo concepto de sucursal bancaria en Harlem
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Chinese Headlines
- High amount of student loan - some research universities are the culprit (Chinese)
- Beware of penalty in early withdrawal of 401K contribution (Chinese)
- Landlord beware of illegal cannabis use on property - insurance has the right to refuse compensation (Chinese)
- Facebook removed 3.4 billion fake accounts the last 6 months - twice as many as the first six months (Chinese)
- City counselor advocates women’s rights - proposed to boycott the ban on abortion (Chinese)
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Spanish Press Release
- 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)
- Keep an eye on five emerging cell phone issues (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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Vietnamese Press Release
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