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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.
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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
- Consumer groups applaud expanded resources for LEP borrowers
- Consumer Action explores frustrating travel fees and passenger rights
- Privatized air traffic control systems exhibit pain points
- Consumer Action adds ‘Ocular Innovation’ video to its Vision Action Center
- DeVos’ latest regulation rollback a blank check to scam schools written by taxpayers
Headlines
- Who wants to be a 401(k) millionaire?
- MoneyGram to pay $125M for violating terms of 2012 settlement
- Here’s how the midterm results could affect student-loan borrowers
- Facebook had a good Election Day
- A smart city is an accessible city
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
- Children’s online privacy provides blueprint for public policy
- Republicans embrace covering preexisting conditions
- Student loan reforms will make education better for Americans
- The economic future isn’t what it used to be
- We’re measuring the economy all wrong
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Spanish Headlines
- Ford llama a reparación casi 1,5 millones de Focus
- Trump hará anuncio sobre costo de medicamentos recetados
- Reseña: iPhone XR, un teléfono para la mayoría de nosotros por menos dinero
- Jefe de Apple critica la utilización de datos de clientes como armas
- Autos de EEUU fallan en sondeo sobre confiabilidad
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Chinese Headlines
- Beware of 4 retail store credit cards with high 30% interest rate (Chinese)
- Subaru and Toyota recalled some 10,000 vehicles in US (Chinese)
- Mercedes-Benz slow in recall practices -faces federal probe (Chinese)
- Medical/federal health insurance fees have reduced the choice of physicians and prescription drugs (Chinese)
- The motion passed on first reading for non-profit institutions raise wages (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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