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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
- SEC ignores investor sentiment about mutual fund disclosure delivery
- Groups tell temporary CFPB director: Hands off the public database!
- If companies can protect user data in Europe, they can protect it everywhere
- Mick Mulvaney turns his back on student borrowers, closes Office of Students and Young Consumers
- New Vision Action Center educates consumers on their rights
Headlines
- Judge rejects interpretation of order to halt partial student debt relief
- Checking accounts can cost more if you’re black or Latino
- How to lower utility bills when the temperature rises
- T.S.A. expands international carry-on limits to powder
- For a day, I was one of the millions of Americans without a bank account
News Video
- Teach kids to be smart consumers
- Asians love digital banking, Americans not so much
- My husband got secret credit cards and maxxed them out
- Bay Area sudden spa closure triggered investigation (Chinese)
- The Equifax hack is way worse than consumers knew (Chinese)
Opinions & Editorials
- Consumer watchdog agency needs to get back to doing its job
- Higher ed law fails its mission to protect military students
- The charts that show how big business is winning
- The Federal Reserve is about to raise its interest rate again
- Affordable housing is your spare bedroom
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Spanish Headlines
- Apple impedirá que extraños se infiltren en iPhones
- Facebook permitirá que los usuarios escriban reseñas sobre los anunciantes
- Legisladores EEUU presionan a Facebook por compartir datos
- Facebook financiará programas noticiosos originales
- EEUU: Medicare se quedará sin dinero antes de los previsto
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Chinese Headlines
- 3 things NOT To Do when applying for Social Security benefits (Chinese)
- Facebook’s 14m users privacy settings changed to “public” (Chinese)
- Facebook shares information with Huawei and other Chinese companies - cause concern (Chinese)
- EB-5 investment immigration visa scam resulted in $2M compensation to families (Chinese)
- Fontana man sent to prison for posing as an immigration officer (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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Vietnamese Press Release
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