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Nation’s oldest consumer advocacy organization celebrates its 125th anniversary and will present annual awards to DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Consumer Investigative Reporter Anna Werner, and One Fair Wage President Saru Jayaraman on Tuesday, October 15

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October 15, 2024: The National Consumers League, the nation’s pioneering consumer and worker advocacy organization since its founding in 1899, has announced it will honor U.S. Department of Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Anna Werner, Senior Consumer Investigative Correspondent, CBS News with its highest honor, the Trumpeter Award, on Tuesday, October 15 in Washington, DC. This year also marks the 125th anniversary of NCL, the nation’s oldest consumer and labor advocacy organization in the U.S.

National Consumers League statement on FTC action against Big Three PBMs

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September 20, 2024: The National Consumers League today applauds the Federal Trade Commission for bringing action against the three largest prescription drug benefit managers and affiliated group purchasing organizations.

The Obesity Bill of Rights: Priorities for government action

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September 20, 2024: Americans need and now have an Obesity Bill of Rights for a reason: People with obesity do not receive the same concern, level of attention, and quality care as those with any other serious chronic disease.  

National Consumers League statement on DOT action in Alaska-Hawaiian merger review

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September 17, 2024: The National Consumers League, America’s pioneering consumer and worker advocacy organization, today applauded the United States Department of Transportation’s historic agreement with Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines to place enforceable public interest conditions on the merger.

Labor Day’s dark reality: The alarming rise in child labor in America (Op-ed by NCL CEO Sally Greenberg was first published in USA Today, Sep 2, 2024)

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September 1, 2024: It may seem counterintuitive to suggest that, on Labor Day, we devote our attention to a subset of the American population who should not be working, or at least not working in jobs that are entirely inappropriate for them.

NCL among one of many organizations expressing concern for the growing catalytic converter theft problem

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August 29, 2024: Today, the National Consumers League, along with many other organizations representing a cross-section of industry and interested stakeholders, signed a letter to the chairs of both the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation expressing their strong support of an amendment to combat the growing national problem of catalytic converter theft.