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Banking & Credit

Consumers, especially low-wealth consumers, need safe, affordable transaction accounts to get paid, pay bills, and save. When these accounts carry high or unpredictable fees, consumers may see their income and savings eroded or lose access to the banking system entirely. Consumer protections designed to ensure that banking fees are predictable, proportional, and fair are necessary to encourage and preserve access to basic transaction accounts that help consumers achieve financial security.

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Communications

In our digital age, communications are especially vital to consumers who increasingly communicate with product and service providers as well as with friends and family. For CFA, it is essential that broadband communications are accessible to everyone, especially to those with less education and lower incomes. It is also important that these communications enjoy adequate consumer and privacy protections.

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Competition & Regulation

Competition helps ensure that consumers have a wide range of goods and services. Regulation helps ensure that these products meet standards of performance and safety and are marketed fairly, with pricing and other features that are understood by consumers. CFA supports the appointment of federal and state regulators who uphold their regulatory mandate and are adequately funded to carry out this mandate.

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Consumer Protection

Consumers deserve fair treatment in the marketplace. CFA promotes consumer protection by advocating for strong laws and regulations, working for trade agreements that provide real benefits for consumers and do not weaken their rights, encouraging good business practices, supporting consumers’ ability to complain and obtain redress, and educating consumers about their rights and how to avoid fraud and abuse. CFA’s Consumer Protection Institute conducts research and brings experts together to address consumer protection issues.

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May 12, 2025

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April 29, 2025

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April 18, 2025

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Energy

Energy from electricity, oil, gas, and other fuels drives the modern world. This energy needs to be affordable, especially for lower income consumers, and environmentally benign. CFA focuses its efforts in this area on improving the efficiency of motor vehicles and appliances.

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December 16, 2024

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August 28, 2024

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August 21, 2024

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Food & Agriculture

CFA conducts research and advocacy to promote a safer, healthier, and more affordable food supply. CFA also coordinates the Safe Food Coalition, which is dedicated to reducing the burden of foodborne illness in the United States by improving government food inspection programs.

CFA organizes the highly praised National Food Policy Conference, held each spring in Washington DC. The conference explores the top food and agriculture issues of the day with a diverse mix of policy makers, advocates, and scientists.

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Housing

Access to safe and affordable mortgage credit is a critical component of consumers’ household balance sheets, sense of home and security, and ability to build wealth. It is also vital for the long term health of our communities. CFA supports and advocates for strong federal regulation of the financial sector to protect consumers from unfair or predatory mortgage lending practices; to assure that all financial institutions respond to the full range of credit needs in the communities they serve through both deposit and lending services; and to assure stable and liquid mortgage funding for both homeownership and rental housing options.

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Insurance

Consumers spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year on car, home, and life insurance products whose complexity and individual pricing permit insurer inefficiency and abuse. A large majority of the state insurance departments that regulate these insurers have neither the resources nor the will to do so adequately. CFA works to improve the effectiveness of this regulation and, where appropriate, supports federal interventions.

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June 12, 2025

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May 21, 2025

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May 06, 2025

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April 01, 2025

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Investor Protection

The millions of Americans who rely on investments to fund their retirement or other life goals are entitled to a marketplace that provides them with a choice of appropriate investments and service providers, the information necessary to make informed choices, protection against fraud and abuse, and effective recourse when they are victims of wrong-doing. CFA works to achieve those goals.

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Privacy

Consumers have a fundamental right to the privacy and security of their personal information. These rights extend to collection and control of personal data, limits on commercial and government surveillance, prohibition of discriminatory data practices, and safeguards for consumers’ personal information from unauthorized exposure and use. CFA promotes consumers’ privacy rights by advocating for strong laws and regulations, encouraging fair and effective data practices, and supporting vigorous enforcement to curb privacy abuses.

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Product Safety

CFA’s product safety advocacy centers on products regulated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), especially those affecting children. Our work focuses special attention on the priorities and effectiveness of the CPSC — its budget, authority, and leadership — and on voluntary and mandatory standard-setting.

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Saving & Spending

Financial institutions should offer consumers, especially those from low- and moderate-income households, savings opportunities that help them build wealth to meet emergencies, purchase a home and education, and afford retirement. Federal and state agencies should promote, facilitate, and sometimes require these opportunities.

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For over 50 years the Consumer Federation of America has worked to advance the consumer interest on a wide range of issues central to the health, safety, and financial well-being of consumers. Our success over the years would not have been possible without the efforts and support of allies in government, media, and other consumer organizations who have fought to advance pro-consumer policies, shined a spotlight on consumer abuses, and joined us in the campaign to right consumer wrongs. CFA has recognized these champions with presentations of the Philip Hart Public Service Award, Esther Peterson Consumer Service Award, Consumer Champion Award, Lifetime Achievement Award, and Betty Furness Consumer Media Honors.

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CFA Applauds American Medical Association’s Resolution in Support of Consumers Right to Know About Alcoholic Beverages  

CFA Applauds American Medical Association’s Resolution in Support of Consumers Right to Know About Alcoholic Beverages  