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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
- Consumer Action guides consumers to avoid investing costs, pitfalls
- Consumer Action condemns the House’s vote to repeal class actions
- Consumer Action opposes Congress’s attack on class actions
- Webinar offers advice about responding to debt collection calls
- Consumer Action applauds new arbitration rule
Headlines
- Stuck in the middle with few housing options
- Why it’s so hard for Americans to save for retirement
- Drivers waste billions of dollars buying premium gasoline
- Replacing touch ID with face ID is a worse idea than you think
- California legislature passes bills to reform PACE energy-efficiency loans
News Video
- The FCC moved to undo net neutrality. So what’s next?
- The secret powerhouse processing millions in fraud
- What happens to your house when you file for bankruptcy
- The stories behind the unseen eviction crisis
- How to avoid this spring break scam
Opinions & Editorials
- How the CFPB should respond to Equifax
- Making sure your help gets to Hurricane Harvey’s victims
- The Trump administration’s ongoing attack on workers
- Harvey’s burdens will fall hardest on the poor
- Unemployment in black and white
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Spanish Headlines
- Avril Lavigne lidera una lista de riesgo de malware
- JPMorgan Chase invierte 40 millones en barrios de Chicago
- Trump y los demócratas se acercan a un pacto para proteger a los 800.000 ‘dreamers’
- Demandan a EEUU por registrar laptops y teléfonos
- La mujer que quiere humanizar a Uber
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Chinese Headlines
- Equifax troubled by FTC probe into data breach (Chinese)
- Equifax’s troubles deepen amid new disclosure about breach (Chinese)
- Debit cards do not count towards your credit score (Chinese)
- Close to 180K dressers recalled by Target (Chinese)
- Impacted individuals of Equifax were to freeze their credit for protection (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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