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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
- CFPB throws borrowers to the sharks
- Consumer Action joins coalition pushing back at drug patent abuse
- Consumer groups urge action on bill to stop “spoofed” robocalls
- Consumers prefer a paper trail
- New director of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is shockingly unqualified in consumer protection
Headlines
- When kids realize their whole life is already online
- Where the 2020 candidates stand on student debt
- Robocalls: Relief in the works may not stop the ringing
- The $15 minimum wage saves lives
- States, consumer groups blast CFPB’s fintech protections
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
- Betsy DeVos vs. student veterans
- Trump’s payback for payday lenders
- Day care for all
- Trump administration welcomes payday loan debt traps
- When the cure is worse than the disease
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Spanish Headlines
- 4 conclusiones positivas de reducir la semana laboral a cuatro días
- Precios aéreos en EEUU bajan a nivel récord desde 1995
- Retrasos de Southwest por falla informática y mal tiempo
- Tips para ahorrar dinero en Netflix
- Tips para ahorrar dinero al usar Uber
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Chinese Headlines
- Ford Motors recalled 150,000 F-150 Pickups and Lincoln vehicles (Chinese)
- Watch Out for False Promises About So-Called Alzheimer’s Cures (Chinese)
- Withdrawal from retirement account may bring on a high tax bill in future (Chinese)
- San Diego couple fell victim to a house purchase fraud, lost $130K (Chinese)
- Apple Computer awarded a high school student who discovered the FaceTime eavesdropping flaw (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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