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Headline News
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.
- Headlines | FHA rescinds tough new credit restrictions on loan applicants
- Headlines | For an affordable trip, check out U.S. parks
- Headlines | Mom, Dad, this playground’s for you
- Headlines | A mortgage rate beginning with a 3
- Headlines | House passes student loans, highway jobs bill
- Headlines | Health-care law’s impact: How Virginia, Maryland and D.C. are faring
- Headlines | The curious case of Internet privacy
- Headlines | Lifeguard shortage leaves many pools, beaches unprotected
- Headlines | Will Google’s personal assistant be creepy or cool?
- Headlines | A look at how people use mobile apps
- Headlines | In documents on pain drug, signs of doubt and deception
- Headlines | Antibiotics are widely used by U.S. meat industry
- Headlines | Shields for privacy in a smartphone world
- Headlines | Apps are helping smartphones become digital wallets
- Headlines | Debunking fuel-economy myths
- Headlines | Apple’s retail army, long on loyalty but short on pay
- Headlines | Three months in customer service limbo
- Headlines | Getting lost in the labyrinth of medical bills
- Headlines | Health-care apps for smartphones pit FDA against tech industry
- Headlines | E-book readers slow to borrow from library
- Headlines | Cut college tuition by getting 4-year degree in 3 years
- Headlines | Facebook signs California mobile app privacy agreement
- Headlines | Moody’s downgrades 15 global banks
- Headlines | Online bank-theft software grows more sophisticated
- Headlines | Used car prices are finally falling
- Headlines | Six steps to decluttering your smartphone
- Headlines | Search results may deliver tainted links
- Headlines | You for sale: mapping, and sharing, the consumer genome
- Headlines | Washington state provides case study on effects of heath-care reform
- Headlines | To stay on schedule, take a break
- Headlines | FCC considers whether to study cellphone radiation
- Headlines | Five products that don’t measure up to their model names
- Headlines | Save more for retirement or pay down mortgage?
- Headlines | Largest health insurer to keep key parts of law regardless of court ruling
- Headlines | Smart strategies for buying major appliances online
- Headlines | Surge in products being recalled may be numbing consumers
- Headlines | Will Philadelphia’s experiment in eradicating ‘food deserts’ work?
- Headlines | Forced to early social security, unemployed pay a steep price
- Headlines | Can gas savings make up for a hybrid’s higher sticker price?
- Headlines | In era of cheap money, consumers are shut out
- Headlines | Jobs for skilled workers are going unfilled
- Headlines | 6.6 million young adults on parents’ health plans
- Headlines | Paycheck Fairness Act fails to advance in Senate
- Headlines | House Republicans seek cuts in financial regulators
- Headlines | Group forms to urge strict oversight of Wall Street
- Headlines | Have your say on Facebook privacy policy
- Headlines | Hawaiian Airlines takes on East Coast as it seeks to expand
- Headlines | 7 tips to get the most out of your internship
- Headlines | Cyber criminals using new tricks to break into computers
- Headlines | Pain pills add cost and delays to job injuries