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The Innovative Transportation Index | RIPIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. The Innovative Transportation Index. The Cities Where New Technologies and Tools Can Reduce Your Need to Own a Car. Wednesday, February 4, 2015. With other cities catching up rapidly. These services make it easier to conveniently get around without owning a car. That is increasingly what city dwellers and Millennials especially say they want. These services individually help travelers, but more importantly, they work together to become more than the sum of their...Offer...
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Stop The Overuse Of Antibiotics on Factory Farms | RIPIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Stop The Overuse Of Antibiotics on Factory Farms. A GROWING THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that at least 23,000 Americans die every year from antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and warns that the widespread overuse of antibiotics on factory farms is putting our health at risk. WHAT IF ANTIBIOTICS STOPPED WORKING? ANTIBIOTIC OVERUSE ON FACTORY FARMS. But, instead of treating sick animals with antibiotics when they get an inf...
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Over 7,000 Comments Submitted to Department of Labor | RIPIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Mario K. Salazar. Over 7,000 Comments Submitted to Department of Labor. Consumers Support Closing Retirement Advice Loophole. Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Today the U.S. Public Interest Research Group submitted comments to the Department of Labor from 7,244 consumers across the country in support of a strong rule that would require financial professionals to act in the best interests of the hard-working Americans that turn to them for retirement advice. A strong rule from th...
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How Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score | RIPIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Wednesday, May 27, 2015. How Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score. Astra Taylor and Jathan Sadowski. In their story appearing in the 15 June issue of The Nation Magazine, "How Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score: Welcome to the new Wild West of data collection without regulation," authors Astra Taylor and Jathan Sadowski explain the world of digital data tracking and digital redlining made possible by secret Big Data algorithms:.
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Public Health | RIPIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. News Release U.S. PIRG. More Than 350,000 Urge KFC to Prevent Abuse of Antibiotics in Its Chicken Supply. Read more about More Than 350,000 Urge KFC to Prevent Abuse of Antibiotics in Its Chicken Supply. News Release U.S. PIRG. Taco Bell Moves Away From Chicken Raised on Medically Important Antibiotics. From Taco Bell’s parent company Yum! Read more about Taco Bell Moves Away From Chicken Raised on Medically Important Antibiotics. The foundation is crumbling. All I want...
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Trouble in Toyland 2014 | RIPIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Report: Avoiding dangerous toys. Trouble in Toyland 2014. The 29th Annual Survey of Toy Safety. Monday, December 1, 2014. For almost 30 years, U.S. PIRG Education Fund has conducted an annual survey of toy safety, which has led to an estimated 150 recalls and other regulatory actions over the years, and has helped educate the public and policymakers on the need for continued action to protect the health and wellbeing of children. Standards for toy safety are enforced by...
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Mortgages and Mortgage Complaints | RIPIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Report: Reining in Wall Street. Mortgages and Mortgage Complaints. The CFPB’s Consumer Complaint Database Gets Real Results for Victims of Mortgage Problems. US PIRG Education Fund. Tuesday, July 14, 2015. This is the sixth in a series of reports that review complaints to the CFPB nationally and on a state-by-state level. In this report we explore consumer complaints about mortgages, with the aim of uncovering patterns in the problems consumers are experiencing with...
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Ed Mierzwinski | RIPIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Contact person by email. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Task Force. He has had recent articles in the. Journal of Consumer Affairs. He is a 2003 recipient of Privacy International’s Brandeis Award for privacy protection efforts and a 2006 recipient of the Consumer Federation of America’s. Esther Peterson Consumer Service Award. For his efforts on Wall Street reform, in both 2010 and 2011 The Hill newspaper selected him as a Top Lobbyist. Awardee, and in 2011.
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Welcome to RIPIRG | RIPIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Democracy For The People. Stop the Overuse of Antibiotics. Stop the Highway Boondoggles. Making Health Care Work. Reining in Wall Street. Get our RSS feed. You spoke up, and they listened. Subway has announced that they will stop selling meat that's been raised with antibiotics. Get Big Money Out, Voters In. Together, we can take our elections back from the Super PACs and mega-donors that are drowning out the voices of regular Americans. HOW CAN I HELP?