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Stop The Overuse Of Antibiotics on Factory Farms | Florida PIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Stop The Overuse Of Antibiotics on Factory Farms. A GROWING THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that at least 23,000 Americans die every year from antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and warns that the widespread overuse of antibiotics on factory farms is putting our health at risk. WHAT IF ANTIBIOTICS STOPPED WORKING? ANTIBIOTIC OVERUSE ON FACTORY FARMS. But, instead of treating sick animals with antibiotics when they get an inf...
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Health Care | Florida PIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. News Release Florida PIRG. Supreme Court Upholds Health Reform. Today’s decision is good news for consumers. Insurance companies can’t go back to the days of dropping your coverage once you become ill, or denying coverage to sick children. And beginning in 2014, the days of insurers being able to deny anyone coverage for pre-existing conditions will be history. Read more about Supreme Court Upholds Health Reform. Making Health Care Work. The Cost of Repeal. Read more ab...
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Consumer Protection | Florida PIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. News Release U.S. PIRG. The Department of Labor Fiduciary Rule for Investment Advice. US PIRG federal legislative director Jerry Slominski on The Release of the Department of Labor Fiduciary Rule for Investment Advice. Read more about The Department of Labor Fiduciary Rule for Investment Advice. CFPB Adding Consumer Ratings of Company Responses to Complaint Database. Wednesday, August 17, 2016. Read more about Good news! News Release U.S. PIRG. Monday, July 18, 2016.
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The Innovative Transportation Index | Florida PIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. The Innovative Transportation Index. The Cities Where New Technologies and Tools Can Reduce Your Need to Own a Car. Florida PIRG Education Fund. Wednesday, February 4, 2015. With other cities catching up rapidly. These services make it easier to conveniently get around without owning a car. That is increasingly what city dwellers and Millennials especially say they want. These services individually help travelers, but more importantly, they work together to beco...Offer...
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We Commend CFPB For Adding Consumer Stories To Public Complaint Database | Florida PIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. We Commend CFPB For Adding Consumer Stories To Public Complaint Database. Friday, June 26, 2015. Statement of Ed Mierzwinski, Consumer Program Director. Despite enormous opposition from banks, credit bureaus and other firms, the CFPB this week announced. Over 10,000 of our members joined us in comments to the CFPB in support of this important expansion proposal. Stop the Overuse of Antibiotics. Stop the Highway Boondoggles. Making Health Care Work. Get our RSS feed.
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Following the Money 2015 | Florida PIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Following the Money 2015. How the 50 States Rate in Providing Online Access to Government Spending Data. Florida PIRG Education Fund. Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Every year, state governments spend hundreds of billions of dollars through contracts for goods and services, subsidies to encourage economic development, and other expenditures. Accountability and public scrutiny are necessary to ensure that the public can trust that state funds are spent as well as possible.
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Mortgages and Mortgage Complaints | Florida PIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Report: Reining in Wall Street. Mortgages and Mortgage Complaints. The CFPB’s Consumer Complaint Database Gets Real Results for Victims of Mortgage Problems. US PIRG Education Fund. Tuesday, July 14, 2015. This is the sixth 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 mortgages, with the aim of uncovering patterns in the problems consumers are experiencing with...
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How Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score | Florida PIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Wednesday, May 27, 2015. How Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score. Astra Taylor and Jathan Sadowski. In their story appearing in the 15 June issue of The Nation Magazine, "How Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score: Welcome to the new Wild West of data collection without regulation," authors Astra Taylor and Jathan Sadowski explain the world of digital data tracking and digital redlining made possible by secret Big Data algorithms:.
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Stop the Handouts to Big Oil | Florida PIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Stop the Handouts to Big Oil. 2011: RECORD PROFITS, RECORD PRICES, and LESS OIL. Despite the industry producing less oil than in 2010, Big Oil made a record-high $137 billion in profit. All the while, the industry hired a fleet of 790 lobbyists and spent $149 million to influence American legislators. At the pump, consumers faced the highest gas prices since 1864. Plug the Bilions in Oil Industry Subsidies. We are still paying for the environmental devastation caused by...