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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
- Consumers prefer a paper trail
- New director of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is shockingly unqualified in consumer protection
- Paper or digital? Consumer Action joins new campaign to protect consumers’ right to choose
- 34 civil rights, consumer and privacy groups release privacy principles
- Consumer groups applaud expanded resources for LEP borrowers
Headlines
- Microsoft pledges $500 Million for affordable housing in Seattle
- 5 pieces of advice from the founder of Vanguard
- How to create strong passwords you can remember
- Trolling Trump and feeding furloughed workers
- The strange marketplace for diabetes test strips
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
- Our privacy regime is broken
- We should be able to take Facebook to court
- Is CBD helpful, or just hype?
- America needs a privacy law
- The real scandals are the ones we aren’t looking at
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Spanish Headlines
- PG&E se declarará en bancarrota por incendios en California
- Refuerzan guerra contra el azúcar en la ciudad de Nueva York
- Las temperaturas oceánicas aumentan más rápido de lo previsto
- Empresa de tecnología en Braille fabrica “Kindle para los ciegos”
- Qué bocadillos comer para mejorar tu salud
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Chinese Headlines
- Personal data breach & how to protection personal information (Chinese)
- Free health care for undocumented immigrants in California might trigger a tax increase (Chinese)
- California bill to ban paper receipts and propose electronic receipts (Chinese)
- PG&E shares plunged 21%, investors worried about the company going bankrupt (Chinese)
- Large number of returned goods in January triggered discounted goods up to 80% off (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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