Become cyber smart! Learn some practical tips that will help guard you against Internet fraud and protect your personal information. Topics include kids' privacy laws, computer security, informational videos, and internet quizzes.

This article outlines how the Antitrust Division of the Department Of Justice works for and protects the typical American consumer.

This site describes the laws that protect consumers when dealing with credit.

Explains how this provision of the Communications Decency Act protects online speech and why it's become so controversial.

Students conduct research on a U.S. Department of Labor webpage to learn about the minimum wage and some laws affecting workers.

The Child Labor Coalition (CLC) exists to serve as a national network for the exchange of information about child labor, protect working minors, end child labor exploitation, and develop public education to combat child labor abuses.

Read the text of the Clayton Act, one of the progressive laws supported by President Woodrow Wilson.

Understand the legalities of private mortgage insurance (PMI) and the law protecting homeowners from paying unnessary fees. Links to understanding the basics of PMI, PMI requirements, the Homeowner's Protection Act (PMI), how to cancel...

Read about the reforms and legislation undertaken through Lyndon B. Johnson's concept of the Great Society. These included economic and educational reforms, consumer protection, changes to immigration laws, and the Voting Rights Act of...

Learners learn how government and the economy are related and the difference between market, command, and mixed economies.

Visit this resource to read the full text of the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act passed under the Johnson administration.

Explains the history and significance of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, and how it led to the later creation of the Food and Drug Administration.

The Progressive Era from the 1890s to the 1920s evolved as a response to the negative effects of industrialization. Reforms that emerged provided protections for workers and consumers and gave women voting rights. Backlash against the...

This is the act that was legislated to improve highway safety.

Site explains Regulation Z , "Truth in Lending" which is the "law requiring disclosure of terms" on a loan given to a business or consumer. Provides specific format of loan information to be disclosed.