Trouble in Toyland 2013
The 2013 Trouble in Toyland report is the 28th annual U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) survey of toy safety. In this report, U.S. PIRG provides safety guidelines for consumers when purchasing...
View ArticleTransportation in Transition
U.S. PIRG Education Fund will release a first-of-its-kind report showing that on average, residents of America’s cities are driving less and using other modes of travel more. The report will compare...
View ArticleFact Sheet: End Tax Write-Offs for Wrongdoing
Fact sheet explains the issue and gives examples.
View ArticleCredit Cards, Consumer Complaints
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was established in 2010 in the wake of the worst financial crisis in decades. Its mission is to identify dangerous and unfair financial practices, to...
View ArticleFixing the Broken Textbook Market
This study demonstrates that despite recent steps forward in the marketplace, high textbook costs will continue to be a problem for students unless the cost of high-priced, new editions of college...
View ArticleA New Course
Across America, colleges and universities are showing that efforts aimed at reducing driving deliver powerful benefits for students, staff and surrounding communities. Policymakers at all levels of...
View ArticleBig Data Means Big Opportunities and Big Challenges
This report examines the growing use of "Big Data" in financial decision-making, especially in a digital marketplace characterized more and more by the use of mobile phones. It explains the...
View ArticleCredit Cards, Consumer Complaints
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was established in 2010 in the wake of the worst financial crisis in decades. Its mission is to identify dangerous and unfair financial practices, to...
View ArticleFollowing the Money 2014
On Tuesday at 10a.m. Eastern, U.S. PIRG Education Fund will release its fifth annual report card evaluating how well each of the 50 states provide public access to data about government spending.
View ArticleThe Unfriendly Skies
Consolidation in the airline industry, along with pressures created by new security rules and the recent high cost of aviation gasoline, has changed the way we fly. It seems as if every consumer has an...
View ArticleDriving Wisconsin’s ‘Brain Drain’
How Outdated Transportation Policies Undermine Wisconsin’s Ability to Attract and Retain Young Talent for Tomorrow’s Economic Prosperity
View ArticleOffshore Shell Games 2014
Tax loopholes encouraged more than 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies to maintain subsidiaries in offshore tax havens as of 2013, according to “Offshore Shell Games,” released today by the U.S. PIRG...
View ArticleWeak Medicine
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria infect more than 2 million people per year in the United States, causing more than 23,000 deaths. State governments, the FDA and other branches of the federal government...
View ArticleWe Urge CFPB To Provide Mobile Financial Protections
Along with the Center for Digital Democracy, our co-investigator on a series of projects related to "big data" and financial opportunity, we've filed detailed comments to the CFPB regarding the need...
View ArticleMillennials in Motion
Millennials are less car-focused than older Americans and previous generations of young people, and their transportation behaviors continue to change in ways that reduce driving. Now is the time for...
View ArticleBig Money Dominates in Congressional Primaries
Our analysis of fund-raising data from 2014’s congressional primaries examines the way these dynamics are playing out state by state across the country. While some states show markedly more inequity...
View ArticleHighway Boondoggles
Even though the Driving Boom is now over, state and federal governments continue to pour vast sums of money into the construction of new highways and expansion of old ones – at the expense of urgent...
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