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Building a Better Health Care Marketplace
Release date: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Building-a-Better-Health-Care-Marketplace-vWeb.pdf Consumers across the state know that the health insurance marketplace is broken. Insurers don’t compete for...
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Ten Reasons Why We Need the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Now
Release date: Thursday, July 21, 2011 tenreasonsweneedcfpb.pdf For years leading up to the 2008 financial collapse, federal bank regulators ignored numerous warnings of increasingly predatory mortgage...
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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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Making the Grade
Released by: ConnPIRG Education Fund Release date: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Making-the-Grade.pdf When it comes to health care, there are few magic-bullet solutions for the many problems consumers...
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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: ConnPIRG and Citizens for Tax Justice Release date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 CTP RepTax Cover.pdf Marking the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United...
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Auctioning Democracy
Released by: ConnPIRG Education Fund Release date: Monday, February 6, 2012 New Report Released: Auctioning Democracy AuctioningDemocracy-CTP.pdf A new report by ConnPIRG Education Fund and Demos...
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Following the Money
Released by: ConnPIRG Education Fund Release date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 New Report: Connecticut Receives a “B” in Annual Report on Transparency of Government Spending Following the Money.pdf The...
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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: ConnPIRG Education Fund Release date: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 Ag Subsidies Pay for 21 Twinkies per Taxpayer, But Only Half of an Apple Apiece Apples to Twinkies vCT.pdf Executive Summary...
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Big Banks Bigger Fees
Released by: ConnPIRG Education Fund Release date: Thursday, November 15, 2012New Survey Shows Banks Still Hiding Fees From ConsumersConnecticutBanks12.pdfSince Congress largely deregulated consumer...
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Trouble in Toyland
Released by: ConnPIRG Education Fund Release date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012Survey Finds Dangerous Toys on Store ShelvesCTP Toyland2012.pdf The 2012 Trouble in Toyland report is the 27th annual U.S....
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The Hidden Cost of Offshore Tax Havens
Released by: ConnPIRG Education Fund Release date: Tuesday, February 5, 2013Offshore Tax Dodging Blows a $904 Million Hole in Connecticut Budget:WEB The Hidden Cost of Offshore Tax Havens...
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Following the Money 2013
Released by: ConnPIRG Education Fund Release date: Wednesday, March 27, 2013Connecticut Receives a “C+” in Annual Report on Transparency of Government...
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.
View ArticleThe Zero Waste Solution
Connecticut burns more of its waste than any other state in the country, generating more than half a million tons of toxic ash every year. Connecticut’s recycling rate, currently at 24 percent, has...
View ArticleMoving Off the Road
After sixty years of almost constant increases in the annual number of miles Americans drive, since 2004 Americans have decreased their driving per-capita for eight years in a row. Driving miles per...
View ArticleBig Banks, Big Complaints
The CFPB’s searchable complaint database is the newest of a set of federal government consumer complaint databases that help consumers make better economic and safety choices by reviewing others’...
View ArticleA New Way to Go
America is in the midst of a technological revolution … and a big shift in our transportation habits. Early evidence suggests that new innovations in technology and social networking are beginning to...
View ArticlePrivate Loans, Public Complaints
This report is the second of several that will review complaints to the CFPB nationally and on a state-by-state level. In this report we explore consumer complaints in the private student loan sector...
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