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We Commend CFPB For Adding Consumer Stories To Public Complaint Database | Georgia PIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. We Commend CFPB For Adding Consumer Stories To Public Complaint Database. Friday, June 26, 2015. Statement of Ed Mierzwinski, Consumer Program Director. Despite enormous opposition from banks, credit bureaus and other firms, the CFPB this week announced. Over 10,000 of our members joined us in comments to the CFPB in support of this important expansion proposal. Stop the Overuse of Antibiotics. Democracy For The People. Stop the Highway Boondoggles. Get our RSS feed.
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Democracy | Georgia PIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Report Georgia PIRG Education Fund. We project that striking the aggregate limit would bring more than $1 billion in additional campaign contributions from elite donors through the 2020 election cycle. Read more about McCutcheon Money. Delivering one million petitions to President Obama on dark money. Read more about Delivering one million petitions to President Obama on dark money. Giving more Americans a greater voice in our elections. Democracy For The People. The Do...
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Democracy For The People | Georgia PIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Democracy For The People. US PIRG is pushing back against big money in our elections and working to institute a system of small donor incentive programs, to amplify the voices of the American people over corporations, Super PACs and the super wealthy. Image: Flickr User: Joe Shlabotnik - Creative Commons. Super PACs and Super Wealthy Dominate Elections. This disparity was also on full display in the 2012 presidential election. Donors who each gave less than $200. Ho...
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Stop The Overuse Of Antibiotics on Factory Farms | Georgia PIRG
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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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Ed Mierzwinski | Georgia PIRG
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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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Stop Highway Boondoggles | Georgia PIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. More and more of us are moving off the roads. Yet we’re still spending billions to expand roads and build new highways every year, even as other needs from expanding public transportation to critical bridge repairs go unmet. Across the country there are countless proposed highway projects that are not just expensive they’re outright boondoggles. We need your help to stop them. It's time to shift our transportation priorities. That are not just expensive they’re outright...
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Over 7,000 Comments Submitted to Department of Labor | Georgia PIRG
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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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Transportation | Georgia PIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. New Report Shows Georgians Are Driving Less. Atlanta - Georgians have cut their per-person driving miles by nearly twelve percent since 2005, while the nation’s long term driving boom appears to have ended, according to a new report from the Georgia PIRG Education Fund. Georgia’s double-digit decline in driving rates is almost five percentage points above the national average. Read more about New Report Shows Georgians Are Driving Less. Moving Off the Road. For many, a ...
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New Report: Mortgage Problems Rank #1 at CFPB for Consumer Complaints | Georgia PIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. New Report: Mortgage Problems Rank #1 at CFPB for Consumer Complaints. Bank of America Receives Most Mortgage Complaints. Tuesday, July 14, 2015. The CFPB has published 138,086 complaints about mortgages, the most complaints received about any financial product from December 2011 until March 16, 2015. Mortgages remain the top source of complaints to the CFPB even though annual mortgage complaint volumes declined slightly in 2014 and the volume of the CFPB’s 10 other pro...