2.2: Consumer Education

Prevent consumer injury through education.

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Educating consumers and businesses about competition law and policy is a critical part of the FTC's mission. Informing businesses and their legal advisers about potential antitrust violations deters anticompetitive mergers and anticompetitive business practices from being proposed and reduces businesses' cost of compliance. Educating consumers about their rights and their ability to bring violations to the FTC's attention reduces the cost of identifying anticompetitive conduct. Providing consumers and businesses with information about how antitrust enforcement benefits the common good also encourages cooperation with the FTC's investigations and enforcement actions. Performance Measure: - Competition resources accessed via the FTC's website. Successful outreach and education efforts, as reflected by the above measure, will help consumers because increased knowledge and understanding of the antitrust laws will help businesses stay in compliance. This measure also helps ensure that the agency engages in consumer, business, and international education that advances the culture of competition.

Stakeholder(s):

• Consumers

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