Food Safety Scares 2013
With millions of Americans getting sick from tainted food each year, more needs to be done to protect people from the risk of unsafe food. But important rules, standards, and inspections that could...
View ArticleTrouble in Toyland 2013
This report will be available at 10:00AM on Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
View ArticleTransportation in Transition
A review of data from the Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration and Census Bureau for America’s 100 most populous urbanized areas – which are home to over half of the nation’s...
View ArticleCredit Cards, Consumer Complaints
This report will be available Tuesday, January 14th at 10:00 AM.
View ArticleClosing the Billion Dollar Loophole
Every year, corporations use complicated gimmicks to shift U.S. earnings to subsidiaries in offshore tax havens – countries with minimal or no taxes – in order to reduce their state and federal income...
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 ArticleDebt Collectors, Debt Complaints:
This is the fifth in a series of reports that review complaints to the CFPB nationally and on a state-by-state level. In this report we explore consumer complaints about debt collection, with the aim...
View ArticleA Year of Progress
While mandatory labeling has met with obstacles, legislation is not the only arena for progress – and the past year has shown that food producers and retailers are listening to consumers’ desire for...
View ArticleFollowing the Money 2014
Every year, state governments spend tens of billions of dollars through contracts for goods and services, subsidies to encourage economic development, and other expenditures. Accountability and public...
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 ArticleOffshore Shell Games 2014
Many large U.S.-based multinational corporations avoid paying U.S. taxes by using accounting tricks to make profits made in America appear to be generated in offshore tax havens – countries with...
View ArticleEnding the Abuse of Antibiotics in Livestock Production
Despite the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (i.e. 'superbugs'), antibiotics are used in massive, untargeted and unrestricted quantities and are not even limited to the treatment of sick people....
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 ArticleRevealing Tax Subsidies and CT Open Data
An examination of the content and implementation of two executive orders issued by Governor Malloy intended to increase government transparency
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 ArticleThe Dominance of Big Money in the 2014 Congressional Elections
In 2014, large donors accounted for the vast majority of all individual federal election contributions this cycle, just as they have in previous elections. Seven of every 10 individual contribution...
View ArticleTrouble In Toyland
The report and accompanying news release will be available here on Tuesday, November 25th at 1:30pm.
View ArticleThe Innovative Transportation Index
This report reviews the availability of 11 technology-enabled transportation services – including online ridesourcing, carsharing, ridesharing, taxi hailing, static and real-time transit information,...
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