Media & Press
Browse Consumer Action's press releases and consumer news headlines culled from U.S. newspapers.
Opinions & Editorials
- Jun 13, 2022 Must-pass bills give Congress (another) chance to lower drug costs
- Mar 21, 2022 How Congress can fight racial discrimination
- Sep 21, 2021 Medicare should be able to negotiate drug prices
- Jul 16, 2021 Consumers should control access to their personal financial data
- Jun 11, 2021 The rule allowing predatory loans from fake lenders must go
- Jun 10, 2021 How we are trying to fulfill the promise of the Fair Housing Act
- May 05, 2021 The weight-loss industry is coming for you post-lockdown
- May 05, 2021 Can Biden’s agenda fix Middle America’s deepest problem?
- May 04, 2021 A new deal, this time for women too
- Apr 28, 2021 No 13-year old needs credit, despite what Apple thinks
- Apr 26, 2021 Resume the J&J vaccine, but with warnings for younger women
- Apr 22, 2021 Congress must overturn OCC’s ‘Fake Lender’ rule
- Apr 20, 2021 The ‘new redlining’ is deciding who lives in your neighborhood
- Apr 14, 2021 Why the J&J pause should bolster confidence in vaccines
- Apr 14, 2021 The economy that lets you get your job done is broken
- Mar 31, 2021 How to stop schools that prey on veterans
- Mar 25, 2021 Taxpayers fund research and drug companies make a fortune
- Mar 24, 2021 Congress should overturn predatory lending rule right away
- Mar 22, 2021 Your home’s value is based on racism
- Mar 17, 2021 Powerful alternatives to predatory lenders
- Mar 08, 2021 America, your privacy settings are all wrong
- Mar 04, 2021 What happens when 10 million tenants can’t make rent?
- Feb 17, 2021 Financial reform can make the U.S. stronger
- Feb 17, 2021 The Texas weather is a chilling reminder of our battered power grid
- Feb 12, 2021 Usually, education increases during tough economies. Why not now?
- Feb 11, 2021 Use pandemic relief to turn renters into homeowners
- Feb 03, 2021 How afraid should corporate America be of Biden?
- Feb 01, 2021 What the Republican counteroffer to Biden’s stimulus plan means
- Feb 01, 2021 GameStop’s destabilizing collision between social media, real world
- Jan 28, 2021 CFPB emerges from Trump storm battered but intact
- Jan 27, 2021 We already paid for these vaccines once
- Jan 27, 2021 Everyone needs N95 masks; but here are the best alternatives
- Jan 26, 2021 What happens when you click “agree”?
- Jan 20, 2021 How to make data privacy real
- Dec 30, 2020 Slow start to coronavirus vaccinations should set off alarms
- Dec 23, 2020 How Biden can restore America’s consumer watchdog
- Nov 16, 2020 Home prices are in a bubble. Full stop.
- Nov 04, 2020 Sorry your mom’s dead. Now give us some money.
- Oct 19, 2020 Millennials suffer when Congress fails to stimulate the economy
- Oct 14, 2020 Watch what happens if the GOP keeps ignoring Covid-19 relief
- Oct 13, 2020 Businesses should take action now to reduce plastic waste
- Sep 28, 2020 Black parents see college degree as a key to success
- Sep 24, 2020 US government needs to save Main Street, not just Wall Street
- Sep 18, 2020 Californians depend on Gov. Gavin Newsom to protect privacy of genetic data
- Sep 16, 2020 The very structure of modern government is under legal assault
- Sep 01, 2020 Hospitals: Be lenient on low-income people with medical debt
- Aug 24, 2020 Americans need a compromise on the economy
- Aug 19, 2020 Can Gov. Newsom protect Californians from predatory lenders?
- Aug 10, 2020 The coming eviction crisis
- Aug 10, 2020 American could control the pandemic by Oct. if we start now.
- Aug 05, 2020 No relief bill, no vacation for Congress
- Aug 03, 2020 Data is being collected from your phone and used to score you
- Aug 03, 2020 Keep schools closed and pay parents to be full-time caregivers
- Jul 22, 2020 In housing, surprising evidence the fight against racism is working
- Jul 13, 2020 The stock market and economy have parted ways
- Jul 11, 2020 Personal finance lessons from the pandemic
- Jul 09, 2020 Congress’s bipartisan national-service bill
- Jul 07, 2020 Privacy isn’t a right you can click away
- Jun 30, 2020 Why the CFPB’s loss at the Supreme Court is really a win
- Jun 29, 2020 Employer-based healthcare, meet massive unemployment
- Jun 29, 2020 U.S. workers need more power
- Jun 29, 2020 IRS should not try to claw back $1.4 billion sent to dead people
- May 28, 2020 California should reframe oversight agency to protect consumers
- May 22, 2020 Say goodbye to your childcare
- Mar 31, 2020 Is your grocery delivery worth a worker’s life?
- Mar 26, 2020 How to get money to small businesses, fast
- Mar 19, 2020 The doctor will see you, but would rather not do so in person
- Mar 12, 2020 Independent agency protects the integrity of our postal system
- Mar 03, 2020 Stopping coronavirus requires health care access, paid sick leave
- Feb 04, 2020 She helped a customer in need. Then U.S. Bank fired her.
- Sep 19, 2019 Americans agree on one thing. Unions matter
- Feb 27, 2019 Should Congress override state privacy rules? Not so fast
- Feb 06, 2019 The least savory actors in the information economy
- Jul 17, 2018 Why do Republicans hate consumers?
- Jan 23, 2018 The more Facebook examines itself, the more fault it finds
- Dec 01, 2017 Don’t let Trump & Wall Street gut consumer protection bureau
- Nov 14, 2017 Robbing blue states to pay red
- Feb 15, 2016 Thanks to the FCC, cable customers may soon #UnLockTheBox
- Jul 21, 2014 Surveys point to increased adoption of VoIP and wireless substitution
- Jun 26, 2014 The Supreme Court saves cellphone privacy
- Feb 25, 2014 Airline regulations should work for, not against, consumers
- Jan 14, 2014 Leveling the legal playing field: Limit forced arbitration
- Aug 28, 2013 Washington Considers GMO-labeling Initiative
- May 18, 2013 Is Yelp bad for small business?
- Oct 29, 2012 How private are your phone calls?
- Jul 17, 2012 The government wants you to eat cheese
- Aug 18, 2011 Forgiving debt may be the answer
- Aug 15, 2011 How to encourage American innovation
- Jun 30, 2011 The Cloud Darkens
- Jun 05, 2011 Facebook and your teenager
- May 17, 2011 The real Social Security and Medicare problem (and fix)
- May 04, 2011 Party like it’s 2013
- Mar 29, 2011 The case for Social Security reform
- Mar 25, 2011 Arbitration can be as expensive as litigation
- Mar 21, 2011 The war on Warren
- Mar 19, 2011 A new Internet privacy law?
- Feb 25, 2011 How to end housing mess
- Jan 31, 2011 Your Rx or your privacy
- Jan 30, 2011 Netizens gain some privacy
- Jan 23, 2011 Should you check Facebook before hiring?