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Consumer Action updates daily, headline news from a variety of news sources. The archive provides access in reverse chronological order, grouped by year, than month to allow for easier browsing.

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2020

July

Jul 08, 2020

• Headlines | Consumer Bureau scraps restrictions on payday loans
• Headlines | U.S. will pay $1.6 billion to Novavax for coronavirus vaccine
• Headlines | Facebook decisions were “setbacks for civil rights,” audit finds
• Headlines | Virus-tracing apps are rife with problems
• Headlines | FICO will now score consumers’ readiness for a financial crisis
• Headlines | Delta, United among airlines that will accept government loans under Cares Act

Jul 07, 2020

• Opinions & Editorials | Privacy isn’t a right you can click away
• Headlines | Small-business loans flowed to health care, construction and big states
• Headlines | Evictions are likely to skyrocket this summer. Black renters will be hard hit
• Headlines | In the COVID-19 economy, you can have a kid or a job - not both
• Headlines | California’s paid family leave program expands to 8 weeks
• Spanish Headlines | Columna: Las reseñas falsas deben seguir en línea; aunque no estoy muy seguro

Jul 06, 2020

• Headlines | A hub for help during the Coronavirus crisis
• Headlines | You might have thrown out your stimulus payment

Jul 03, 2020

• Spanish Headlines | Grupos apoyados por Google critican nuevas advertencias de Apple sobre rastreo a usuarios
• Spanish Headlines | Acuerdos secretos podrían mantener un medicamento contra el COVID-19 fuera de alcance para millones de personas

Jul 02, 2020

• Headlines | RV rentals rise as Americans prepare for July 4 road trips
• Headlines | From super-prime to deep subprime, credit scores you need to know
• Headlines | Fraudulent jobless claims slow relief to the truly desperate
• Headlines | Consumers in COVID payment modification plans find credit files tarnished
• Spanish Headlines | El cheque de estímulo por coronavirus ha permitido mantener a 12 millones de personas fuera de la pobreza, revela un estudio
• Spanish Headlines | Latinos y afroamericanos son los que más pagan impuestos de propiedad en Estados Unidos

Jul 01, 2020

• Headlines | FDA to require covid-19 vaccine to prevent disease in 50% of recipients
• Headlines | Poor Americans were deprived of $500 stimulus payment for their children
• Headlines | Workers are getting laid off for a second time as reopenings are on hold
• Headlines | Airlines and airports adopt new strategies for combating the coronavirus
• Headlines | A dire warning from COVID-19 test providers
• Headlines | Florida State makes the news over harmful new policy for working moms
• Spanish Headlines | Cómo comprar en línea de forma segura durante la pandemia
• Spanish Headlines | Vencido estímulo monetario para indocumentados en California: Aquí otros recursos con solicitud abierta
• Spanish Headlines | A medida que aumenta el coronavirus, más tiendas optan por pagos electrónicos. El precio es el racismo

June

Jun 30, 2020

• Opinions & Editorials | Why the CFPB’s loss at the Supreme Court is really a win
• Headlines | Trying to correct banking’s racial imbalance
• Headlines | Most with coronavirus won’t spread It. Why do a few infect many?
• Headlines | Paycheck protection program nears end with $130 billion unused
• Headlines | Your zip code determines your experience with student debt
• Spanish Headlines | Cómo comprar una garantía extendida para tu automóvil

Jun 29, 2020

• Opinions & Editorials | Employer-based healthcare, meet massive unemployment
• Opinions & Editorials | U.S. workers need more power
• Opinions & Editorials | IRS should not try to claw back $1.4 billion sent to dead people
• Headlines | Gilead’s $2,340 price for coronavirus drug draws criticism
• Headlines | New data reveals hidden flood risk across America
• Headlines | How the coronavirus pandemic is undoing globalization
• Headlines | Why cloth masks without valves are better at fighting the spread of covid-19
• Headlines | FDIC considers scrapping quarterly bank reports
• Spanish Headlines | 3 apoyos que da el gobierno por la crisis del coronavirus que se terminan en julio

Jun 28, 2020

• Spanish Headlines | El boicot publicitario contra Facebook se volverá global, dicen sus organizadores

Jun 27, 2020

• Spanish Headlines | El programa para ayudar a los inmigrantes afectados por el coronavirus continúa plagado de problemas

Jun 26, 2020

• Headlines | An alarming number of people are complaining about their Citi credit cards
• Headlines | Huge changes coming to student loan servicers

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