Media & Press
Browse Consumer Action's press releases and consumer news headlines culled from U.S. newspapers.
Opinions & Editorials
- 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
- Nov 18, 2019 Why you shouldn’t saddle college-bound teens with student debt
- Nov 04, 2019 Government protects our food and cars. Why not our data?
- Nov 04, 2019 Congress can help lower your hotel bills
- Oct 30, 2019 Collecting debt from defrauded students fits Betsy DeVos’s ideology
- Oct 30, 2019 Facebook’s cryptocurrency won’t help the poor access banks
- Oct 28, 2019 Be cautious in doling out money to adult children
- Oct 28, 2019 How to get a better deal from a real estate agent
- Oct 23, 2019 Why are insurance companies practicing medicine?
- Oct 17, 2019 How to stop the abuse of location data
- Oct 10, 2019 A judge calls Betsy DeVos to account
- Sep 26, 2019 Remaking the financial system does not require any new laws
- Sep 19, 2019 Americans agree on one thing. Unions matter
- Sep 16, 2019 Should we love or hate ‘negative’ interest rates?
- Sep 11, 2019 An opportunity to make corporations more pro-consumer
- Sep 09, 2019 CPFB head misguided in reliance on consumer education
- Sep 03, 2019 Paying for college is changing middle-class life
- Aug 29, 2019 Consumer bureau’s reckless plan for debt collection
- Aug 16, 2019 Government coordination would help millions repay student loans
- Aug 15, 2019 Give the FTC some teeth to guard our privacy
- Aug 14, 2019 This drug will save children’s lives. It costs $2 million.
- Aug 12, 2019 This Social Security scam is just evil
- Aug 09, 2019 CA needs to institute a ‘student borrower bill of rights’
- Aug 08, 2019 A bipartisan step forward on drug pricing
- Aug 07, 2019 When the devil is literally in the details
- Jul 27, 2019 A $5 billion fine for Facebook won’t fix privacy
- Jul 22, 2019 The unnerving tale of having my Social Security hacked
- Jul 10, 2019 Why don’t Americans talk about child care?
- Jul 08, 2019 How pregnancy monitoring tech harms women
- Jul 08, 2019 A new approach on housing affordability
- Jun 27, 2019 How much cheaper your auto loan would be if dealers played fair
- Jun 19, 2019 How states can step in when Trump doesn’t enforce laws
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