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With an annual testing budget well over $30 million, the non-profit organization behind the magazine and website, with 60 labs and teams of engineers and investigators, puts thousands of consumer goods through their paces.

tl;dr, I'd like to abolish the consumer class

Recent consumer sentiment reports have been poor, so it's reasonable to assume the consumer spending backdrop has softened.

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-- OPINION -- Editor's note: The Consumer Brands Association and Consumer Reports were featured in The Hill Opinion on Feb. 22 for sounding

Tariffs are on, tariffs are off, tariffs are delayed—the confusion surrounding world trade has Americans on edge. The University of Michigan's sentiment

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Supply chain constraints have begun as a result of companies wishing to avoid US-implemented tariffs. Germany-based DHL has suspended all business-to-consumer

Plus bad food stocks, and more on the jobs report

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It's complicated, and Joe Biden certainly isn't telling the American people the whole story.

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How to make an impact in your day-to-day choices without aiding & abetting big oil and plastic. Plus two ways to hold big business accountable.

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Shifting the focus of economic policy-making to cater to 'producers' would take us to a new world of economic and social mediocrity.

Is there any way, as a consumer, to use spectroscopy to determine what atoms/molecules are contained in a product?For instance when you buy gold leaf to check that it's really gold. Or to see if your water is contaminated with, say, lead or PFOA. Or even to compare different kinds of water, like different brands of bottled water.As it is, as a consumer, I have to rely on marketing and regulatory oversight. And…

Fear sells, and nothing grabs clicks like an article with a dramatic headline warning readers to rethink every sip of possibly poisonous tap water. And especially one leaning heavily on selective science and even heavier on the allure of a product pitch. But before you start boiling your Brita, it's worth asking: Are we being informed — or just expertly marketed to?

E. Tammy Kim reports on upheaval at a military-oriented unit of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as the Trump Administration attempts to downsize or outright close the agency.

Russell Vought tells staff to stay home and Federal Reserve not to fund CFPB