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Consumers deserve their money back if they canceled a flight due to COVID

Too many Americans know the story: You choose to cancel a plane trip due to the ongoing pandemic, but you don’t get your money back from the airline.

Instead, you get a voucher for a future flight. But an estimated 55% of vouchers for unused tickets will expire in 2021, despite the fact that we’re three months away from 2022 and the virus is still raging in much of the country. Electing not to fly during a pandemic shouldn’t mean having to watch your money evaporate in an expiring voucher.

Airlines should give consumers their money back, plain and simple — and Fair Share is organizing

Tell the Senate: We need the right to fair repair

Why can't we get our own stuff fixed?

As tech companies block their customers from repairing their gadgets and push them to buy new, it's a question that's costing consumers and the environment alike. That's why we need legislation guaranteeing our right to repair the things we own.

Tell your U.S. senators today to back right to fair repair legislation.

When manufacturers make items like smartphones, printers and even tractors unnecessarily inconvenient, costly or impossible to repair, they put a strain on everything from our pocketbooks to our planet.

This practice creates vast

The unfair banking practice costing customers billions

Your total for that gallon of milk will be $37 — $2 for the milk and $35 for overdrawing your bank account.

Every year, banks rake in billions on predatory overdraft fees that hit low-income and vulnerable customers the hardest. Customers deserve transparency from their banks on overdraft policies — and they need protection from repetitive punitive fees.

Tell your U.S. representative to protect average Americans and support the Overdraft Protection Act.

Overdraft fees take place when a customer makes a purchase that exceeds the funds in their checking account.

U.S. produces 6.9 million tons of electronic waste annually

In 2019, the United States produced 6.9 million metric tons of electronic waste -- roughly the equivalent of 38,000 blue whales.

In part, this is a crisis manufactured by tech companies, who make it unnecessarily difficult to repair their gadgets, encouraging customers to buy new and trash the old. We should be able to get our electronics fixed -- and a new bill in Congress could make that happen.

Let's make universal broadband a reality

So much of our life happens online. Work, school, paying bills, applying for jobs, seeing the doctor — no matter how we use it, the internet is an essential utility in the 21st century.

But too many Americans are forced offline because of inadequate access to broadband. The Biden administration's bipartisan plan to fund nationwide broadband is a commonsense way to close this digital divide.

Tell your U.S. representative to support this plan and help make universal broadband a reality.

The past year has shown us that reliable access to the internet increasingly is a requirement for

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