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Reporters may call Consumer Action in Washington, DC, at 202-544-3088 or 301-718-2511, and in San Francisco at 415-777-9648. Our press spokespersons include .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) in DC, and .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (English/Spanish) in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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About Consumer Action
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 consumers to financially prosper. We are a top rated nonprofit at Great NonProfits.org and a Platinum seal holder on Guidestar.org.
Our diverse staff provides expert commentary on key consumer issues and current marketplace issues affecting low- to moderate-income and limited-English-speaking consumers. We may be able to offer you access to individuals who have contacted our hotline and given us permission to share their names and narratives.
What’s on this page?
On this page, you can browse Consumer Action’s own press releases as well as a curated digest of daily consumer news selected by our staff from the headlines of major U.S. news organizations. Click here for Spanish headlines.
Press Releases
- Consumer Action applauds lawmakers’ move to preserve cash payments
- Advocates applaud move to require lenders to get applicants’ language preference
- Nueva publicación ayudará a la comunidad hispana en California a ejercer sus derechos de privacidad
- New resource to help Hispanic Californians learn about and exercise their privacy rights
- Advocates to FDIC: Stop banks from fronting for predatory lenders
Headlines
- Twitter pays $150 million penalty for breaking privacy promises again
- Buy now, pay dearly?
- Income-targeted student loan forgiveness invites a ‘train wreck’
- Consumers lured Into predatory car repair loans
- Bank of America to pay $10 million for illegal garnishments
News Video
- We’ve reached a global tipping point for reining in tech
- Airline mechanics feel pressured to overlook potential safety problems
- Teach kids to be smart consumers
- Asians love digital banking, Americans not so much
- My husband got secret credit cards and maxxed them out
Opinions & Editorials
- How Congress can fight racial discrimination
- Medicare should be able to negotiate drug prices
- Consumers should control access to their personal financial data
- The rule allowing predatory loans from fake lenders must go
- How we are trying to fulfill the promise of the Fair Housing Act
( View More Opinions & Editorials )
Spanish Headlines
- Estudio: Vacuna de Pfizer contra COVID da protección a niños
- Cómo protegerse de las estafas más frecuentes
- Legisladores de California debaten plan de salud universal
- Cómo crear crédito cuando no lo tienes
- Piden ley sobre privacidad tras reporte sobre “lobby” de Amazon
( View More Spanish Headlines )
Chinese Headlines
- CA 50th Anniversary
- Distinguishing between Covid vaccine fact and fiction
- Lifeline and the Emergency Broadband Benefit, Consumer Action Community Services & 50th anniversary
- International shipping company fraud & how to complain
- IRS announces two new online tools to help families manage Child Tax Credit payments (Chinese)
( View More Chinese Headlines )
Spanish Press Release
- Nueva publicación ayudará a la comunidad hispana en California a ejercer sus derechos de privacidad
- How to get help with your mortgage during COVID-19 (Spanish)
- 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)
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Chinese Press Release
- How to get help with your mortgage during COVID-19 (Chinese)
- 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)
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Vietnamese Press Release
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