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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 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 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
- CFPB must live up to its name
- Consumer Action supports a financial transaction tax
- CFPB throws borrowers to the sharks
- Consumer Action joins coalition pushing back at drug patent abuse
- Consumer groups urge action on bill to stop “spoofed” robocalls
Headlines
- Uber vs. Lyft: Which ride-hailing app is better
- Could debt collectors send you texts, emails?
- No-income, no-asset mortgages are back
- Military members could save tens of millions of dollars on student loans
- Same-sex couples face higher rejection and worse mortgage rates
News Video
- 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
- Bay Area sudden spa closure triggered investigation (Chinese)
Opinions & Editorials
- Why you can no longer get lost in the crowd
- Opinion: Privacy is too big to understand
- Both major political parties have failed to curb dangerous pesticides
- The con of the side hustle
- Let’s hear it for state university
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Spanish Headlines
- Toma hijo, tu tarjeta de crédito
- Algunos de los celulares plegables de Samsung se rompen
- Cómo leer tu informe de crédito
- Lyft retira bicicletas eléctricas tras problemas con frenos
- Empleadores abandonan la ‘tolerancia cero’ en pruebas de drogas en la era de la marihuana legal
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Chinese Headlines
- Social media poses a threat to privacy - Americans still use it amid complaints (Chinese)
- Anti-SB50 Housing State Act passed by 9:2 (Chinese)
- Feds Charge 24 In Alleged $1.2 Billion Medicare Fraud Scheme (Chinese)
- Tip on how to handle fraudulent robocalls? (Chinese)
- Alameda City A/B votes proposal draws public attention (Chinese)
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Spanish Press Release
- 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)
- Keep an eye on five emerging cell phone issues (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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