Media & Press
Browse Consumer Action's press releases and consumer news headlines culled from U.S. newspapers.
Opinions & Editorials
- Jul 16, 2021 Consumers should control access to their personal financial data
- Jun 11, 2021 The rule allowing predatory loans from fake lenders must go
- Jun 10, 2021 How we are trying to fulfill the promise of the Fair Housing Act
- May 05, 2021 The weight-loss industry is coming for you post-lockdown
- May 05, 2021 Can Biden’s agenda fix Middle America’s deepest problem?
- May 04, 2021 A new deal, this time for women too
- Apr 28, 2021 No 13-year old needs credit, despite what Apple thinks
- Apr 26, 2021 Resume the J&J vaccine, but with warnings for younger women
- Apr 22, 2021 Congress must overturn OCC’s ‘Fake Lender’ rule
- Apr 20, 2021 The ‘new redlining’ is deciding who lives in your neighborhood
- Apr 14, 2021 Why the J&J pause should bolster confidence in vaccines
- Apr 14, 2021 The economy that lets you get your job done is broken
- Mar 31, 2021 How to stop schools that prey on veterans
- Mar 25, 2021 Taxpayers fund research and drug companies make a fortune
- Mar 24, 2021 Congress should overturn predatory lending rule right away
- Mar 22, 2021 Your home’s value is based on racism
- Mar 17, 2021 Powerful alternatives to predatory lenders
- Mar 08, 2021 America, your privacy settings are all wrong
- Mar 04, 2021 What happens when 10 million tenants can’t make rent?
- Feb 17, 2021 Financial reform can make the U.S. stronger
- Feb 17, 2021 The Texas weather is a chilling reminder of our battered power grid
- Feb 12, 2021 Usually, education increases during tough economies. Why not now?
- Feb 11, 2021 Use pandemic relief to turn renters into homeowners
- Feb 03, 2021 How afraid should corporate America be of Biden?
- Feb 01, 2021 What the Republican counteroffer to Biden’s stimulus plan means
- Feb 01, 2021 GameStop’s destabilizing collision between social media, real world
- Jan 28, 2021 CFPB emerges from Trump storm battered but intact
- Jan 27, 2021 We already paid for these vaccines once
- Jan 27, 2021 Everyone needs N95 masks; but here are the best alternatives
- Jan 26, 2021 What happens when you click “agree”?
- Jan 20, 2021 How to make data privacy real
- Dec 30, 2020 Slow start to coronavirus vaccinations should set off alarms
- Dec 23, 2020 How Biden can restore America’s consumer watchdog
- Nov 16, 2020 Home prices are in a bubble. Full stop.
- Nov 04, 2020 Sorry your mom’s dead. Now give us some money.
- Oct 19, 2020 Millennials suffer when Congress fails to stimulate the economy
- Oct 14, 2020 Watch what happens if the GOP keeps ignoring Covid-19 relief
- Oct 13, 2020 Businesses should take action now to reduce plastic waste
- Sep 28, 2020 Black parents see college degree as a key to success
- Sep 24, 2020 US government needs to save Main Street, not just Wall Street
- Sep 18, 2020 Californians depend on Gov. Gavin Newsom to protect privacy of genetic data
- Sep 16, 2020 The very structure of modern government is under legal assault
- Sep 01, 2020 Hospitals: Be lenient on low-income people with medical debt
- Aug 24, 2020 Americans need a compromise on the economy
- Aug 19, 2020 Can Gov. Newsom protect Californians from predatory lenders?
- Aug 10, 2020 The coming eviction crisis
- Aug 10, 2020 American could control the pandemic by Oct. if we start now.
- Aug 05, 2020 No relief bill, no vacation for Congress
- Aug 03, 2020 Data is being collected from your phone and used to score you
- Aug 03, 2020 Keep schools closed and pay parents to be full-time caregivers
- Jul 22, 2020 In housing, surprising evidence the fight against racism is working
- Jul 13, 2020 The stock market and economy have parted ways
- Jul 11, 2020 Personal finance lessons from the pandemic
- Jul 09, 2020 Congress’s bipartisan national-service bill
- Jul 07, 2020 Privacy isn’t a right you can click away
- Jun 30, 2020 Why the CFPB’s loss at the Supreme Court is really a win
- Jun 29, 2020 Employer-based healthcare, meet massive unemployment
- Jun 29, 2020 U.S. workers need more power
- Jun 29, 2020 IRS should not try to claw back $1.4 billion sent to dead people
- Jun 24, 2020 The jobs we need
- Jun 24, 2020 What is owed
- Jun 22, 2020 We’re losing the war against surveillance capitalism
- Jun 15, 2020 Pandemic relief should aim to help black workers most of all
- May 28, 2020 California should reframe oversight agency to protect consumers
- May 22, 2020 Say goodbye to your childcare
- May 20, 2020 McConnell’s rush to protect businesses endangers everyone else
- May 19, 2020 Far-right CFPB task force threatens consumer protection
- May 19, 2020 9/11 swept aside much of our privacy. Coronavirus could end it
- May 18, 2020 Will Facebook’s oversight board hold the company accountable?
- May 06, 2020 Essential workers are sacrificial workers
- May 04, 2020 Before we use digital contact tracing, we must weigh the costs
- May 02, 2020 It’s time to ban dangerous debt collection during COVID
- Apr 08, 2020 Privacy cannot be a casualty of the coronavirus
- Apr 06, 2020 Jobless stats should guide Congress, president on recovery
- Apr 06, 2020 Social distancing is a privilege
- Mar 31, 2020 Is your grocery delivery worth a worker’s life?
- Mar 26, 2020 How to get money to small businesses, fast
- Mar 23, 2020 I’m 26. Coronavirus sent me to the hospital.
- Mar 23, 2020 How to avoid complete economic destruction
- Mar 19, 2020 The doctor will see you, but would rather not do so in person
- Mar 12, 2020 Independent agency protects the integrity of our postal system
- Mar 11, 2020 If you can work from home, you should. Now.
- Mar 09, 2020 With coronavirus, ‘health care for some’ is a recipe for disaster
- Mar 04, 2020 Best treatment for the coronavirus? Paid sick leave
- Mar 03, 2020 Stopping coronavirus requires health care access, paid sick leave
- Feb 23, 2020 Interest rate caps are popular—for good reason
- Feb 23, 2020 App makers getting out in front of government intervention
- Feb 12, 2020 This is no way to run a central bank
- Feb 11, 2020 Changes to the census could make small towns disappear
- Feb 10, 2020 Apps are selling your location data. The U.S. gov is buying.
- Feb 04, 2020 She helped a customer in need. Then U.S. Bank fired her.
- Jan 22, 2020 Trump Admin is clearing the way for housing discrimination
- Jan 15, 2020 Reducing the health-care tax
- Jan 13, 2020 The gig economy is coming for your job
- Jan 09, 2020 The assault on consumer protection
- Dec 19, 2019 Google Nest, Amazon Ring? Reject corporations’ surveillance
- Dec 18, 2019 How has this pesticide not been banned?
- Dec 10, 2019 Uber’s new loan program could trap drivers in cycles of debt
- Nov 27, 2019 What happens when we give airlines ruinous power over us
- Nov 19, 2019 Predatory lenders working to freeze Arizona’s minimum wage
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