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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 and current marketplace issues affecting low- to moderate-income and limited-English-speaking consumers. We may be able to offer you access to individuals who have contacted our hotline and given us permission to share their names and narratives.
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
- D.C. stands up for consumers in deceptive hotel pricing scheme
- Consumer Action survey finds respondents want location data used only for the purpose for which it’s collected
- CFPB must live up to its name
- Consumer Action supports a financial transaction tax
- CFPB throws borrowers to the sharks
Headlines
- Dream of retiring abroad? Medicare doesn’t travel well
- Americans have big student loans but little financial literacy
- Student loan scam stopped
- A key piece of Obamcare finds an unlikely foe
- Roth 401(k): The other employer-based retirement plan
News Video
- Airline mechanics feel pressured to overlook potential safety problems
- 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)
Opinions & Editorials
- Why don’t Americans talk about child care?
- How pregnancy monitoring tech harms women
- A new approach on housing affordability
- How much cheaper your auto loan would be if dealers played fair
- How states can step in when Trump doesn’t enforce laws
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Spanish Headlines
- Las grandes economías recelan de la moneda de Facebook
- UE investiga cómo utiliza Amazon los datos de vendedores
- Congreso de EEUU cuestiona a compañías tecnológicas
- EEUU: Farmacéuticas contribuyeron a crisis de opioides
- Escuelas, blanco atractivo para ciberataques
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Chinese Headlines
- Fast food industry intends to use license plate to identify orders - consumers worry about privacy violations (Chinese)
- FDA warning: 16 dog food suspects are potentially associated with canine cardiomyopathy (Chinese)
- Honda to recall 1.6 million vehicles to replace Takata airbags (Chinese)
- Twitter will quarantine politicians’ tweets if they violate rules (Chinese)
- Democratic leaders vowed to restore fines in 2020 for uninsured (Chinese)
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Spanish Press Release
- 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)
- Keep an eye on five emerging cell phone issues (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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