Media & Press
Browse Consumer Action's press releases and consumer news headlines culled from U.S. newspapers.
Opinions & Editorials
- Aug 09, 2010 These ‘cookies’ aren’t tasty
- Jun 20, 2010 Congress defends the big banks
- May 24, 2010 Medical ‘loss ratio’ gaming begins
- Apr 19, 2010 The FCC and the Internet
- Apr 18, 2010 Whose side are they on?
- Mar 01, 2010 Financial reform endgame
- Feb 12, 2010 Cell phones and privacy
- Jan 25, 2010 Restarting financial reform
- Dec 19, 2009 Show us the e-mail
- Oct 13, 2009 Truth in advertising, offline or online
- Oct 10, 2009 Have banks no shame?
- Sep 14, 2009 Reforming the financial system
- Aug 30, 2009 Majority rule on health reform
- Aug 24, 2009 About your 401(k)
- Aug 23, 2009 The uninsured
- Aug 20, 2009 The debit card trap
- Aug 02, 2009 Curbing runaway health inflation
- Jul 24, 2009 Minnesota A.G. wins one for consumers
- Jul 20, 2009 Lost in the cloud
- Jul 20, 2009 Sharks circle in Congress
- Jul 14, 2009 (Bank) chutzpah on steroids
- Jul 13, 2009 Borrowers bled dry
- Jun 29, 2009 Insurance company schemes
- Jun 22, 2009 Health care showdown
- May 07, 2009 How we tested the big banks
- May 04, 2009 As foreclosures surge ...
- Apr 26, 2009 Our lending law is worth saving
- Apr 13, 2009 391 percent payday loan
- Apr 06, 2009 The credit card trap
- Mar 26, 2009 Online advertisers should tread carefully
- Mar 19, 2009 It’s the regulations, not the regulator
- Mar 12, 2009 Investors profiting from - and fixing - mortgages
- Mar 03, 2009 Lawmakers: translate rhetoric into real reform
- Feb 19, 2009 We own the banks—shouldn’t we run them?
- Feb 10, 2009 Plugging in the Postal Service
- Feb 09, 2009 Weighing the Employee Free Choice Act
- Jan 04, 2009 A voice for the consumer
- Dec 28, 2008 Obama: Don’t use the tax code as a tool
- Dec 27, 2008 Curbing credit card predators
- Dec 26, 2008 Fading housing hope
- Dec 16, 2008 Credit Cards: a break for borrowers
- Dec 10, 2008 Why tie health insurance to a job?
- Nov 23, 2008 America’s access to justice at risk
- Nov 03, 2008 Gouging women on health insurance
- Oct 21, 2008 A return to thrift
- Oct 19, 2008 30-year sneak attack in America’s class war
- Oct 18, 2008 The college credit card trap
- Oct 17, 2008 Buy a beach house when going bankrupt
- Oct 17, 2008 Good homeowners, bad loans
- Oct 14, 2008 Wall Street’s turn to bolster confidence
- Oct 03, 2008 If the bailout doesn’t pass…
- Oct 02, 2008 Show us the hope
- Sep 09, 2008 Regulators fail to rein in credit card abuse
- Aug 15, 2008 Less than golden years
- Aug 06, 2008 Listen to the 56,000 [credit card comments]
- May 06, 2008 Overdue first step to curb credit card abuses
- May 03, 2008 The Fed aims at credit cards
- Apr 17, 2008 Debate: Police those credit cards
- Apr 14, 2008 Foreclosure politics
- Apr 03, 2008 Wrong relief
- Apr 01, 2008 Holding pattern
- Mar 27, 2008 How not to prevent foreclosures
- Mar 26, 2008 Safeguarding private medical data
- Feb 13, 2008 Lifeline for whom?
- Feb 08, 2008 Card issuers invest in DC
- Jan 24, 2008 Time for attention to consumer issues
- Jan 21, 2008 King’s words more relevant than ever
- Jan 20, 2008 The real price of fakes
- Jan 10, 2008 A questionable barrier to the polls
- Jan 03, 2008 No insurance, poor health
- Jan 02, 2008 Rein in credit card debt
- Dec 27, 2007 Throwing the book at them
- Dec 27, 2007 Complex pricing of credit cards
- Dec 25, 2007 The Fed’s Thaw
- Nov 29, 2007 Spreading the [housing] misery
- Nov 25, 2007 Wireless phone monopoly a bad deal
- Nov 24, 2007 Targeting yield-spread-premium abuse
- Nov 23, 2007 Give toy safety more clout
- Nov 15, 2007 Congress and the mortgage mess
- Nov 14, 2007 Major flaws in U.S. banking system
- Nov 06, 2007 Watered-down mortgage reform
- Oct 28, 2007 Not wise to bail out reckless investors
- Oct 23, 2007 Unsafe products overwhelm safety agency
- Oct 19, 2007 Fix rates to save loans
- Oct 19, 2007 Why veto children’s health care funding?
- Oct 11, 2007 Cutting them a break on carried interest
- Oct 05, 2007 Common sense and credit cards
- Oct 03, 2007 Mortgage brokers’ sleight of hand
- Oct 01, 2007 Insurance for the next Big One
- Sep 27, 2007 TV doomsday: Will the USA be ready?