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Consumer Action
Formation1971
Location
  • San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, OR, United States;
Exec. Dir.
Ken McEldowney
Websitewww.consumer-action.org

Consumer Action is a nonprofit, consumer education and advocacy center, serving consumers in the United States. Founded in 1971, the mission of Consumer Action is to help individual consumers assert their rights in the marketplace and to advance pro-consumer industry-wide change for the benefit of all. Consumer Action primarily achieves that mission by providing multi-lingual education, outreach, and advocacy services.

It has offices in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.

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