Category Archives: Latest In Consumer News
California forces auto insurers to refund policyholders, but doesn’t specify how much
CFC in the News | April 13, 2020 | Mercury News | By Michael Nowels Petition filed by the Consumer Federation of California in late march of 2020. Read more here >>
Senate committee disses California’s big cryptocurrency push
April 05, 2022|By Susannah Luthi | POLITICO A representative for Yee and the Consumer Federation of California logged their opposition to the bill. In a letter to the committee and Kamlager, the Consumer Federation’s CEO Robert Herrell also stressed the digital currencies’ “wild fluctuations” that leave consumers “completely … Read More ›
A new California law could make your next car rental more expensive
February 24, 2022|By William P. David| THE NEW YORK TIMES “It’s just another way to get additional money without having it show up in the rack rate or the base rate on the car,” Robert Herrell, the executive director of the Consumer Federation of California, told me. “We … Read More ›
A Conversation with Richard Cordray
If you missed the online event on December 16, 2020 with Richard Cordray, author and former Director of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he discussed his book Watchdog – How Protecting Consumers Can Save our Families, our Economy, and our Democracy. you can view it … Read More ›
Workers deserve protection from COVID-19. The agency responsible for that doesn’t care.
Opinion NBC News
Big Banks Profit from White Supremacy. They Should Return PPP Fees to Black and Latino Communities
Next City Op-Ed
See which bills affecting California consumers and taxpayers did and did not pass
San Francisco Chronicle
Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’ following public outcry
CNBC article
Editorial: Reject Prop. 24, California’s online privacy measure Complex ballot measure is the wrong way to go about achieving consumer protections
Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards
New California Financial Watchdog Would Take Aim At Predatory Lenders Amid Pandemic
Read full NPR article here