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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.
- Headlines | Mothers’ careers are at extraordinary risk
- Spanish Headlines | Comisión del Congreso de EEUU detalla abusos de las grandes tecnológicas y pide leyes más duras
- Headlines | The pros and cons of co-signing a student loan
- Headlines | When the phone company and the robocall scammer are the same
- Headlines | Companies ditch plans for rapid spit tests at home
- Headlines | Apps will get you paid early for a price
- Headlines | Millennials increasingly believe their student debt wasn’t worth their education
- Headlines | How rich Americans avoid taxes
- Headlines | Stimulus payment deadlines you can’t afford to miss
- Headlines | How to predict merit aid in a strange college application season
- Headlines | What California’s gas-powered car ban means for you
- Headlines | Pay cuts become permanent for many Americans during pandemic
- Headlines | Nearly 9 million people didn’t get stimulus payments
- Headlines | Amazon unveils drone that films inside your home
- Spanish Headlines | Cómo evitar las estafas relacionadas con COVID-19
- Spanish Headlines | Entra en vigor regla de carga pública que impide residencia para indocumentados que piden ayuda del gobierno
- Spanish Headlines | Muere hombre en EEUU por comer demasiados dulces de regaliz
- Headlines | ‘Tsunami’ of hotel closures is coming
- Headlines | Here’s why many scientists think the coronavirus is airborne
- Headlines | As school begins, mothers working retail feel extra burden
- Opinions & Editorials | Californians depend on Gov. Gavin Newsom to protect privacy of genetic data
- Headlines | Workers with disabilities can earn just $3.34 an hour
- Headlines | Million mortgage borrowers fall through coronavirus safety net
- Headlines | Student debt is fueling the Black-white wealth gap
- Headlines | New York AG finds student loan company Transworld Systems misled borrowers
- Headlines | Amazon to hire 100,000 workers
- Headlines | Americans who can afford to save money are waiting for a vaccine to spend
- Headlines | Cleaners demand safeguards from booking service Handy
- Headlines | Who gets hurt when the world stops using cash?
- Headlines | This Social Security myth could cost you thousands
- Spanish Headlines | La nueva etiqueta nutricional facilita una alimentación más saludable
- Headlines | Talk about your money with adult children
- Headlines | Parents got more time off. Then the backlash started
- Headlines | Welcome to “sanitization theater”
- Headlines | 9 everyday experiences the pandemic has endangered
- Headlines | The 2020 tax year is going to be a hot mess
- Headlines | Congress warns of possibly ‘billions of dollars’ in PPP fraud and abuse
- Headlines | Target’s carseat recycling program returns
- Spanish Headlines | Cómo obtener el mejor interés para la compra de un auto a pesar de un crédito bajo
- Headlines | Apple and Google are making it easier to opt in to virus tracing
- Headlines | This state just passed sweeping protections for student loan borrowers
- Headlines | Old Navy will pay employees to work at election polls
- Headlines | More recalls due to salmonella: shrimp, peaches
- Headlines | Unemployment claims are stubbornly high
- Headlines | Amazon’s creepy new health wearable
- Headlines | Much more than checks: How Social Security depends on the mail
- Headlines | Should employers force workers to get a COVID-19 vaccine?
- Headlines | Hotels tout cleaning, but guests say, ‘my room was dirty’
- Headlines | The lesson from TikTok? It’s all about our data
- Headlines | About that student loan pause: You might want to keep paying