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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...

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A New Direction

The Driving Boom—a six decade-long period of steady increases in per-capita driving in the United States—is over.

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The 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...

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Moving 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...

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Big 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’...

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A 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...

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Private 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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