What is Consumer Reports?
{{Infobox non-profit | name = Consumer Reports | image = Consumer Reports logo 2016.svg | type = [[Nonprofit organization]] | founded_date = {{Start date and age|1936}} | tax_id = | registration_id = | founder = [[Arthur Kallet]]<br />[[Colston Warne]] | location = 101 Truman Avenue<br />[[Yonkers, New York]] 10703 | origins = | key_people = Marta Tellado, [[President (corporate title)|President]]<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/business/media/ford-foundation-executive-to-lead-consumer-reports.html?_r=0 |title=Ford Foundation Executive to Lead Consumer Reports - NYTimes.com |first=Christine |last=Haughney |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=14 July 2014 |location=[[New York, NY|New York]] |issn=0362-4331 |accessdate=6 February 2015}}</ref> | area_served = | product = | mission = | focus = | method = | revenue = $241.7 million (2017) | endowment = | num_volunteers = | num_employees = 592 (2019) | num_members = | subsid = | owner = | non-profit_slogan = | former name = | homepage = {{URL|https://www.consumerreports.org}} | dissolved = | footnotes = }} '''Consumer Reports''' ('''CR''') is a nonprofit organization focused only on unbiased [[product testing]], [[investigative journalism]], consumer-focused research, [[public education]], and [[consumer advocacy]].{{sfn|Franklin|2015|p=141}} Founded in 1936 as Consumer Union, CR was created to serve as an information source that consumers could use to help assess product performance and safety.{{sfn|Franklin|2015|p=141-2}} Since that time, CR has continued its testing and analysis of products and services, and advocate for the consumer in legislative and rule-making areas.{{sfn|Franklin|2015|p=142-3}} Consumer Reports helped advocate for [[seat belt]] laws,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Silber|first1=Norman Isaac |title=Test and protest - the