A fair marketplace for consumers

We need to stop unfair practices and help consumers make smart, informed choices.

In some ways, it has never been easier to be a consumer. A global marketplace is just one click away, and millions of products and services can be delivered straight to our homes. But today’s marketplace is also full of hidden dangers that threaten our health, safety and financial security.

We help consumers make smart, informed choices in today’s rapidly changing marketplace. We expose unfair practices, point to needed reforms to state and federal consumer protection laws and empower Americans to protect themselves by providing the resources they need. 

Highlights of our work:

• Protecting Americans from unfair surprise medical bills. Before 2022, one in five Americans who visited an emergency room or had surgery found themselves stuck with a surprise medical bill — even if they made sure to go to a hospital in their insurance network. We helped put an end to one million surprise bills every month when Fair Share joined with a coalition of public interest and health organizations to win passage of the federal No Surprises Act.

• Standing up to predatory loans. Right now, high-cost payday lenders are allowed to give loans with triple-digit interest rates to people with low but steady incomes — including veterans. In fact, lenders can demand sums of up to three times the amount of the original loan. This isn't right.  We're urging  people to ask their U.S. senators to stop predatory lending practices that target our country’s most vulnerable populations.