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Credit Checkup: Improving the Accuracy of Credit Reports

Consumer Reports partnered with WorkMoney, a national nonprofit dedicated to lowering costs and raising incomes for Americans, to ask consumers to check their reports and…

April 30, 2024

Money

Consumer Reports and WorkMoney letters to the credit reporting agencies on improving credit report accuracy

Letter from Consumer Reports and WorkMoney to the Consumer Data Industry Association on the need to improve the accuracy of credit reports for consumers. Identical…

April 30, 2024

Money
Press Release

Consumer Reports: Big win for safer roads as U.S. sets new rule to make automatic emergency braking standard in all new passenger vehicles

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Consumer Reports (CR) today praised a new rule that will require automatic emergency braking to come standard in all new cars and…

April 29, 2024

Cars
Press Release

Consumer Reports praises USDA for declaring salmonella an adulterant at low levels in breaded raw chicken products

New USDA rule will help protect the public from foodborne illness outbreaks WASHINGTON, D.C. – Consumer Reports applauded the USDA today for issuing a final…

April 26, 2024

Food
Press Release

Amazon and Target Will Stop Sales of Weighted Baby Sleep Sacks and Weighted Baby Swaddles Due to Safety Concerns

The retailers’ news comes as a U.S. senator calls for a federal investigation into Dreamland Baby and Nested Bean WASHINGTON, DC – Consumer Reports (CR)…

April 26, 2024

Product Safety
Press Release

Consumer Reports applauds FCC vote to restore Net Neutrality rules

WASHINGTON, D.C.  – The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 in favor of restoring open internet rules and the agency’s Title II authority for broadband. This…

April 25, 2024

Tech & Privacy
Press Release

Connecticut’s landmark Artificial Intelligence bill clears the Senate

Hartford, CT – The Connecticut state Senate advanced a broad artificial intelligence (AI) bill today. If the bill is passed by the Connecticut House of…

April 24, 2024

Tech & Privacy
Press Release

California bill to shield school children from harmful food dyes clears another legislative hurdle in Assembly

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – On April 23, the California Assembly’s Committee on Environmental Safety & Toxic Materials voted to advance a bill to ban six harmful food dyes…

April 24, 2024

Food
Press Release

Consumer Advocacy, Food Delivery, Public Safety, and E-Bike Industry Sectors Call on Congress to Set a Safety Standard for Lithium-Ion Batteries to Prevent E-Bike Fires

WASHINGTON, DC – Consumer Reports (CR), Grubhub, the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and twenty-one other organizations sent joint letters today calling on the…

April 23, 2024

Product Safety

Joint Letters Calling on the House and Senate to Set a Safety Standard for Lithium-Ion Batteries to Prevent E-Bike Fires

Consumer Reports (CR), Grubhub, the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and twenty-one other organizations sent joint letters today calling on the House and Senate…

April 23, 2024

Product Safety
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