Media & Press
Browse Consumer Action's press releases and consumer news headlines culled from U.S. newspapers.
Opinions & Editorials
- 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
- Jun 19, 2019 Advice for women navigating an unequal workplace
- Jun 14, 2019 We read 150 privacy policies. They were incomprehensible
- Jun 12, 2019 Help is almost here for retirement savers
- Jun 10, 2019 Why is America so far behind Europe on digital privacy?
- Jun 04, 2019 Is burnout real?
- May 28, 2019 When a traffic ticket costs $13,000
- May 28, 2019 Americans deserve a ‘right to be forgotten’
- May 24, 2019 The ‘gift’ of an affordable education. Something has gone wrong.
- May 23, 2019 There’s only one way to stop predatory lending
- May 22, 2019 The internet security apocalypse you probably missed
- May 20, 2019 Does your car need to know when you gain weight?
- May 14, 2019 For-profit colleges need state oversight
- May 13, 2019 Welcome to the world of subprime children
- May 08, 2019 We are drowning in data
- May 06, 2019 Zuckerberg claims that, at Facebook, ‘the future is private.’
- May 02, 2019 Govt.‘s move that threatens to keep Americans trapped in debt
- Apr 29, 2019 Losing our fourth amendment data protection
- Apr 25, 2019 Poor people’s privacy can’t be an afterthought
- Apr 24, 2019 You’re about to get fewer robocalls, but maybe not for long
- Apr 19, 2019 How to make retirement last the rest of your life
- Apr 18, 2019 Why you can no longer get lost in the crowd
- Apr 17, 2019 Opinion: Privacy is too big to understand
- Apr 10, 2019 Both major political parties have failed to curb dangerous pesticides
- Apr 08, 2019 The con of the side hustle
- Mar 25, 2019 Let’s hear it for state university
- Mar 15, 2019 Congress needs to take action against scam calls
- Mar 12, 2019 4 Ways To Reduce Plastics
- Mar 12, 2019 Bank deposit advances are payday loans in disguise
- Mar 06, 2019 With digital privacy law, don’t repeat mistakes of the past
- Feb 27, 2019 Should Congress override state privacy rules? Not so fast
- Feb 27, 2019 Doctors and racial bias: still a long way to go
- Feb 25, 2019 It’s time for pharma companies to have a tobacco moment
- Feb 19, 2019 Betsy DeVos vs. student veterans
- Feb 13, 2019 Trump’s payback for payday lenders
- Feb 12, 2019 Day care for all
- Feb 12, 2019 Trump administration welcomes payday loan debt traps
- Feb 11, 2019 When the cure is worse than the disease
- Feb 06, 2019 The least savory actors in the information economy
- Feb 01, 2019 The unfinished business of the Equifax hack
- Jan 31, 2019 Homeowners in government programs at risk of foreclosure
- Jan 30, 2019 The false trade-offs of personal data protection
- Jan 28, 2019 The fleecing of millennials
- Jan 23, 2019 How MLMs are hurting female friendships
- Jan 22, 2019 There’s hope for federal online privacy legislation
- Jan 07, 2019 Our privacy regime is broken
- Jan 07, 2019 We should be able to take Facebook to court
- Dec 28, 2018 Is CBD helpful, or just hype?
- Dec 27, 2018 America needs a privacy law
- Dec 13, 2018 The real scandals are the ones we aren’t looking at
- Dec 10, 2018 Why do airlines block their customers on social media?
- Dec 07, 2018 Yes, student loans really are making millennials go broke
- Dec 04, 2018 Forget trinkets. These gifts change lives
- Nov 28, 2018 Betsy DeVos’s harassment rules protect schools, not students
- Nov 26, 2018 The monopolization of America
- Nov 15, 2018 End forced arbitration in all employment-related disputes
- Oct 25, 2018 Children’s online privacy provides blueprint for public policy
- Oct 22, 2018 Republicans embrace covering preexisting conditions
- Oct 16, 2018 Student loan reforms will make education better for Americans
- Oct 01, 2018 The economic future isn’t what it used to be
- Sep 17, 2018 We’re measuring the economy all wrong
- Sep 04, 2018 College students need more loan watchdogs, not fewer
- Aug 29, 2018 How DeVos could trigger another financial meltdown
- Aug 29, 2018 A green light for banks to start redlining
- Aug 28, 2018 Student debt proplem is worse than we imagined
- Aug 27, 2018 The DeVos school for the promotion of student debt
- Aug 21, 2018 Privacy coalition opposes efforts to undo new data privacy law
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