Also this week, the House of Representatives passed a major bill to rewrite financial rules and add consumer protections.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

The Consumer Electronics Show has an area for companies to demonstrate products that save energy,reduce waste and use recycled materials.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

But the Consumer Product Safety Commission has just lowered the limit to ninety parts per million.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

"I don't want to spend more than twenty dollars for a backpack." Consumer spending is seventy percent of the economic activity in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

"We're going to have one federal consumer financial protection bureau.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

Congress agreed to create a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

The president pointed to stabilizing consumer spending and home sales, declining unemployment claims and an eroding number of job losses.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

He says the campaign aims to change consumer behavior through the use of soft power, not hard power.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

Among Republican concerns: that the new consumer watchdog will have too much authority to ban financial products.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

Hatoyama and his DPJ have promised consumer-oriented assistance such as child-support payments to help families, and vow to overhaul structures that favor corporations.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

"I think consumer spending numbers are reflective of the job numbers, which continue to be weak."

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

Now,it is relying on China's cheap labor and the emergence of a consumer culture to help claw the world out of the financial crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

"So LEC,once they receive the power have to be able to deliver it to the consumer.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

Consumer spending accounts for about 70 percent of the U.S.economy and is closely linked to unemployment.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29