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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
- 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
- SEC faces lawsuit over forcing e-delivery of shareholder reports
- Consumer Action condemns the Education Department’s borrower defense rule
Headlines
- He meant to donate $15 to a GoFundMe and gave more than $15,000
- Only 10 percent have flood insurance on hard-hit Carolina coast
- When being separated from your luggage is a good thing
- How (and when) to limit kids’ tech use
- Senators demand answers after student loan watchdog resigns
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
- We’re measuring the economy all wrong
- College students need more loan watchdogs, not fewer
- How DeVos could trigger another financial meltdown
- A green light for banks to start redlining
- Student debt proplem is worse than we imagined
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Spanish Headlines
- Evita tarifas engañosas de hoteles en tus próximas vacaciones
- ¿De verdad debemos dejar de beber alcohol?
- Microsoft pide a contratistas que otorguen licencia parental
- Trump firmará orden ejecutiva sobre jubilaciones
- Gmail ofrece sugerencias de respuestas automáticas a correos
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Chinese Headlines
- GM recalls more than 1.2M vehicles due to power-assisted steering problems (Chinese)
- Scammers faked as grandchild in trouble to get money from grandparents (Chinese)
- Woman accused of lying about firefighter husband to collect $11K in donations (Chinese)
- Wells Fargo Employees altered business customers’ information are being investigated (Chinese)
- Ford recalled 160,000 F-150 Pickups (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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