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Beware fraudulent work-at-home offers

The advertisement says you can make lots of money working from the comfort of your home. But if this were true, wouldn’t we all be doing it? There are legitimate home-based businesses out there, but also numerous scams – enough to make you think twice about “working from home” offers.

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Looking for work? Avoid job scams

The ad promises to help you get a good-paying job, but how do you know it’s not a con artist doing a job on you?

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Just how private is your personal information?

The Financial Modernization Act (also called Gramm-Leach-Bliley, or GLB, after the chief sponsors), was supposed to help consumers understand how their banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions handle personal information and give them some control over its use. Each institution was required to notify its customers about its privacy policy and consumers’ rights by July 1, 2001.

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The ultimate consumer challenge, our teen quiz-show competition cultivates a new generation of savvy consumers.

Stop Child Labor

Our Child Labor Coalition works to end child labor exploitation and protect working minors in the U.S. and abroad.

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Wage Theft

NCL's Special Project on Wage Theft is educating workers and employers about the growing problem, which affects blue- and white-collar employees.

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