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Subject Headings

  • Child consumers
  • College students as consumers
  • Consumers
  • Consumer affairs departments
  • Consumers' leagues
  • Consumption (Economics) -- Surveys
  • Cost and standard of living
  • Credit card holders (Persons)
  • Family life education
  • Food
  • Grocery shopping
  • Home economics
  • Low-income consumers
  • Male consumers
  • Oder consumers
  • Shopping
  • Single consumersStorage in the home
  • Women consumers

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Government publications include brochures from all national parks and monuments. These can usually be found online or in paper by using the Catalog of Government Publication.

There are many agencies within the United States government that deal with topics related to consumers. See the page on this guide for more information.

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