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Big Banks, Bigger Fees
Release date: Saturday, April 2, 2011 uspirgBIGBANKSREPORTONLY.pdf Since Congress largely deregulated consumer deposit (checking and savings) accounts beginning in the early 1980s, the PIRGs have...
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Ten Reasons Why We Need the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Now
Released by: WashPIRG Release date: Thursday, July 21, 2011 tenreasonsweneedcfpbfinal19julyAFR_USPIRG.pdf For years leading up to the 2008 financial collapse, federal bank regulators ignored numerous...
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Apples to Twinkies
Release date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Apples-to-Twinkies-web-vUS.pdf America is facing an obesity epidemic – one that’s hitting children especially hard. Childhood obesity rates have tripled...
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Caution: Red Light Camera Ahead
Released by: WashPIRG Release date: Thursday, October 27, 2011 Caution-Red-Light-Cameras-Ahead---vWA-web.pdf Privatized traffic law enforcement systems are spreading rapidly across the United States....
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Trouble in Toyland
Release date: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 USPIRG_Trouble_In_Toyland.pdf The 2011 Trouble in Toyland report is our 26th annual survey of toy safety. In this report, we provide safety guidelines for...
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Representation Without Taxation
Released by: WashPIRG Foundation Release date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 WAP RepTax Cover.pdf Marking the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United vs. Federal...
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Auctioning Democracy
Released by: WashPIRG Foundation Release date: Monday, February 6, 2012 New Report Released: Auctioning Democracy WAP.pdf A new report by WashPIRG Foundation and Demos shows an analysis of the funding...
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Following the Money 2012
Released by: WashPIRG Foundation Release date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Following the Money vWA.pdf The ability to see how government uses the public purse is fundamental to democracy. Transparency...
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Picking Up the Tab
Release date: Thursday, April 12, 2012 Picking Up the Tab: Average Citizens and Small Businesses Pay the Price for Offshore Tax Havens Executive Summary Some U.S.-based multinational firms or...
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Apples to Twinkies 2012
Released by: WashPIRG Foundation Release date: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 Ag Subsidies Pay for 21 Twinkies per Taxpayer, But Only Half of an Apple Apiece Apples to Twinkies vWA-.pdf Executive Summary At...
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Big Banks, Bigger Fees: A National Survey of Fees and Disclosure Compliance
Released by: WashPIRG Foundation Release date: Thursday, November 15, 2012Big Banks Bigger Fees 2012.pdfSince Congress largely deregulated consumer deposit (checking and savings) accounts beginning in...
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Trouble in Toyland 2012
Released by: WashPIRG Release date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012WAP Toyland2012.pdfGet our Toy Safety shopping tips here.Check out our mobile site with shopping tips on your smartphone at...
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Subsidizing Bad Behavior
Released by: WashPIRG Release date: Thursday, January 3, 2013Report Exposes How Taxpayers Bear Cost of Corporate SettlementsSubsidizing Bad Behavior USPIRG EF.pdf How Corporate Legal Settlements for...
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Review of Anthem's Rate Increase on Individual Policies
Released by: CALPIRG Release date: Friday, January 4, 2013Review of Anthem Rate Increase Effective 3/1/13Executive SummaryNearly 340,000 Californians in individual insurance plans will see average...
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Caution: Red Light Camera Ahead
Released by: WashPIRG Release date: Thursday, October 27, 2011Caution-Red-Light-Cameras-Ahead---vWA-web.pdfPrivatized traffic law enforcement systems are spreading rapidly across the United States. As...
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Transparency in City Spending
Released by: WashPIRG Foundation Release date: Friday, January 25, 2013#2WashPIRG_Transparency in City Spending_v6_screen.pdf Rating the Availability of Online Government Data in America's Largest...
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The Hidden Cost of Offshore Tax Havens
Released by: WashPIRG Foundation Release date: Thursday, February 7, 2013 Offshore Tax Dodging Blows a $40 Billion Hole in State Budgets, $150 Billion NationallyWEB The Hidden Cost of Offshore Tax...
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Too Close to Home
Released by: WashPIRG Foundation Release date: Friday, February 15, 2013Nukes & H2O web vWA.pdfThe Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which took place in March 2011, delivered a reminder to the...
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Following the Money 2013
Released by: WashPIRG Foundation Release date: Wednesday, March 27, 2013Washington Receives a “B-” in Annual Report on Transparency of Government SpendingWA_Following_the_Money_screen_final.pdfEvery...
View ArticleA New Direction
The Driving Boom—a six decade-long period of steady increases in per-capita driving in the United States—is over.Americans drive fewer total miles today than we did eight years ago, and fewer per...
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