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Article: Consumer Jungle Web site gets new look; same focus.(UPDATES)
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- Wenatchee Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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Then: An interactive, Web-based teaching tool aimed at helping teens become responsible consumers--by offering information on everything from credit card use to buying a car--was launched in October 2001.
The Consumer Jungle Web site was created with funding from the Young Adult Consumer Education Trust, a Wenatchee-based nonprofit organization that got its start in November 1999 with a $3.2 million chunk of a $150 million settlement from a class-action lawsuit against the Sears Corporation for consumer credit violations.
Wenatchee attorney Bob Parlette of the Davis Arneil Law Firm and his co-counsel Scott Kane of Lacy & Kane in East Wenatchee helped ...