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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: USPIRG Education Fund Release date: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Nationwide Survey of New Health Exchanges Shows How to Lower Costs for Consumers Making-the-Grade-vUS-WEB.pdf Washington D.C....
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Caution: Red Light Cameras Ahead
Released by: NMPIRG Education Fund Release date: Thursday, October 27, 2011 New Report Outlines Problems with Red-Light and Speed Cameras Caution---Red-Light-Cameras-Ahead.pdf Privatized traffic law...
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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: NMPIRG Education Fund Release date: Friday, January 20, 2012 NMP 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: The Rise of Super PACs and the 2012 Election
Released by: NMPIRG Education Fund Release date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 New Report Released: Auctioning Democracy: The Rise of Super PACs and the 2012 Election...
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Following the Money 2012
Released by: NMPIRG Education Fund Release date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 New Report: New Mexico Receives C+ “GRADE” in Annual Report on Transparency of Government Spending Following the Money...
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Loopholes for Sale
Released by: NMPIRG Education Fund Release date: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Release of New Report: Loopholes for Sale USP Loopholes Rpt Mar 12.pdf Recent polls show a large majority of Americans,...
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Picking Up the Tab
Released by: NMPIRG Education Fund Release date: Thursday, April 12, 2012 Offshore Tax Havens Cost Average New Mexico Taxpayers $206 a Year, Each New Mexico Small Business $1,106, New Study Finds...
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Apples to Twinkies 2012
Released by: NM PIRG 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 vNM-.pdf Executive Summary...
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Trouble in Toyland 2012
Released by: NMPIRG Education Fund Release date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012Survey Finds Dangerous Toys on Store ShelvesNMP Toyland2012.pdfGet our Toy Safety shopping tips here.Check out our mobile...
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. The time has come for America to hit the “reset” button on transportation...
View ArticlePrivate Loans, Public 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 ArticleFood Safety Scares 2013
Over the past few years, Americans have grown accustomed to seeing headlines about tainted food being recalled and pulled off store shelves. These high-profile recalls leave many Americans wondering...
View ArticleBig Credit Bureaus, Big Mistakes
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was established in 2010 in the wake of the worst financial crisis in decades. Its mission is to identify dangerous and unfair financial practices, educate...
View ArticleTrouble in Toyland 2013
The 2013 Trouble in Toyland report is the 28th annual New Mexico Public Interest Research Group survey of toy safety. In this report, NMPIRG provides safety guidelines for consumers when purchasing...
View ArticleTransportation in Transition
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 compares the latest government data on changes in...
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...
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