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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 supported by solid data. We offer access to victim testimony, as well as expertise on current financial issues affecting low to moderate income and limited-English-speaking consumers.
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
- New director of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is shockingly unqualified in consumer protection
- Paper or digital? Consumer Action joins new campaign to protect consumers’ right to choose
- 34 civil rights, consumer and privacy groups release privacy principles
- Consumer groups applaud expanded resources for LEP borrowers
- Consumer Action explores frustrating travel fees and passenger rights
Headlines
- Johnson & Johnson knew talcum powder had asbestos traces
- Kotex recalls tampons after reports of unraveling
- Five challenges facing new consumer bureau chief
- Dept. of Education to cancel $150 million in student loan debt
- What parents need to know about Google Home, Amazon Echo
News Video
- 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)
- The Equifax hack is way worse than consumers knew (Chinese)
Opinions & Editorials
- The real scandals are the ones we aren’t looking at
- Why do airlines block their customers on social media?
- Yes, student loans really are making millennials go broke
- Forget trinkets. These gifts change lives
- Betsy DeVos’s harassment rules protect schools, not students
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Spanish Headlines
- EEUU perdona deudas a estudiantes que no se pudieron graduar
- Tú puedes cambiar la industria tecnológica si decides ser un consumidor ético
- Cómo calificar para la condonación de préstamos por servicio público
- Acceso al crédito, el problema del 80% de los pequeños negocios
- El calentamiento global ya existió… y acabó con casi toda la vida
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Chinese Headlines
- Google to close Google+ social network in Apr 2019 (Chinese)
- Chinese hackers behind massive Marriott breach (Chinese)
- Qualcomm claimed $40M royalty on Apple for patent infringement (Chinese)
- Scammers making fraudulent calls impersonating as Social Security staff (Chinese)
- IRS National Tax Security Awareness Week reminded taxpayers to protect themselves online (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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Vietnamese Press Release
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