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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. TexPIRG Homepage 8.17.16. Stop the Overuse of Antibiotics. Making Health Care Work. Democracy For The People. Reining in Wall Street. Safer Chemicals, Safer Texas. Stop the Highway Boondoggles. Get our RSS feed. JOB OPENING: NEW VOTERS PROJECT CAMPUS ORGANIZER. We're teaming up with big restaurant chains to stop the overuse of antibiotics on factory farms. Call on KFC to stop selling meat raised on routine antibiotics. Texas Public Interest Research Group.
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. TexPIRG Commends Congressman Doggett for Protecting Texas consumers from Crippling Drug Costs. Read more about TexPIRG Commends Congressman Doggett for Protecting Texas consumers from Crippling Drug Costs. TexPIRG Commends Congressman Doggett for Protecting Texas consumers from Crippling Drug Costs. Read more about TexPIRG Commends Congressman Doggett for Protecting Texas consumers from Crippling Drug Costs. The high cost of prescription drugs has been a perennial conce...
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Stop the Dallas Trinity Parkway Boondoggle | TexPIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Stop the Dallas Trinity Parkway Boondoggle. More and more of us are moving off the roads. Yet, across the country there are countless proposed highway projects, like the Dallas Trinity Parkway, that are not just expensive they’re outright boondoggles. We need your help to stop it. It's time to shift Texas’ transportation priorities. Since then, the Millennial Generation has led the way. With more people walking, biking and taking transit. In fact, in 2014. In Texas, as ...
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Stop The Overuse Of Antibiotics on Factory Farms | TexPIRG
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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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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Stop the Overuse of Antibiotics. Making Health Care Work. Democracy For The People. Reining in Wall Street. Safer Chemicals, Safer Texas. Stop the Highway Boondoggles. Get our RSS feed. JOB OPENING: NEW VOTERS PROJECT CAMPUS ORGANIZER. You spoke up, and they listened. Subway has announced that they will stop selling meat that's been raised with antibiotics. Get Big Money Out, Voters In. HOW CAN I HELP? How much are you paying for roads?
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Who Pays for the Road | TexPIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Who Pays for the Road. How the Users Pay Myth Gets in the Way of Solving America’s Transportation Problems. Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Many Americans believe that drivers pay the full cost of the roads they use through gas taxes and other user fees. That has never been true, and it is less true now than at any other point in modern times. Today, general taxes paid by. Pay for America’s roads. And how we spend it. In the years to come. Roads don’t pay for themselves. Roads pa...
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. An Examination of Economic Development Transparency in Texas. Thursday, February 26, 2015. Stop the Overuse of Antibiotics. Making Health Care Work. Democracy For The People. Reining in Wall Street. Safer Chemicals, Safer Texas. Stop the Highway Boondoggles. Get our RSS feed. JOB OPENING: NEW VOTERS PROJECT CAMPUS ORGANIZER. Your donation supports TexPIRG's work to stand up for consumers on the issues that matter, especially when powerful interests are blocking progress.
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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. News Release U.S. PIRG Education Fund. Report: Analysis of Payday Complaints Reveals Need for Stronger Federal Protections. By the U.S. PIRG Education Fund. CFPB Turns 5 Years O...
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We Commend CFPB For Adding Consumer Stories To Public Complaint Database | TexPIRG
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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. Making Health Care Work. Democracy For The People. Reining in Wall Street.