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Textbook Publisher’s Twitter Contest Backfires | Student PIRGs
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Together we can make change happen. Textbook Publisher’s Twitter Contest Backfires. Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Late Tuesday afternoon, students around the country seized on McGraw-Hill’s twitter contest #usedtextbookproblems and instead used it as an opportunity to criticize the companies excessive prices. The big textbook publishers that are charging $200 a book don’t want students to buy used textbooks it means less profit for them,. Said Ethan Senack, Higher Education Advocate at the Student PIRGs,.
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Why McGraw-Hill Is Offering $100 for Your #usedtextbookproblems | Student PIRGs
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Together we can make change happen. Tuesday, June 9, 2015. Why McGraw-Hill Is Offering $100 for Your #usedtextbookproblems. Someone highlighted the entire chapter. #usedtextbookproblems - - Share yours for a change to win $100! That's what college textbook publisher McGraw-Hill's twitter account has been blasting out to their followers the past few days. In many cases, the only way that students can afford the materials they need is by purchasing used or rented textbooks. It's a blatantly transparent att...
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Stop The Overuse Of Antibiotics on Factory Farms | WashPIRG
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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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Stop the Puget Sound Gateway Boondoggle | WashPIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Stop the Puget Sound Gateway Boondoggle. More and more of us are moving off the roads. Yet, across the country there are countless proposed highway projects, like the Puget Sound Gateway, that are not just expensive they’re outright boondoggles. We need your help to stop it. It's time to shift Washington’s transportation priorities. Since then, the Millennial Generation has led the way. With more people walking, biking and taking transit. In fact, in 2014. That connects...
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Letter to Subway President and CEO Fred De Luca | WashPIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Report: Stop The Overuse Of Antibiotics on Factory Farms. Letter to Subway President and CEO Fred De Luca. Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Stop the Highway Boondoggles. Stop the Overuse of Antibiotics. Democracy For The People. Making Health Care Work. The Bottle Bill Works. Get our RSS feed. Are you a student? 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.
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Welcome to WashPIRG | WashPIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Stop the Highway Boondoggles. Stop the Overuse of Antibiotics. Democracy For The People. Making Health Care Work. The Bottle Bill Works. Get our RSS feed. Are you a student? You spoke up, and they listened. Subway has announced that they will stop selling meat that's been raised with antibiotics. Big Win For Our Democracy. Keeping Wall Street in check. Stop the Highway Boondoggles. 1402 3rd Avenue, Suite 715. Seattle, WA 98101 (206) 568-2854.
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Transportation | WashPIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Clean Transportation Doesn’t Need To Be A Distant Utopia. Monday, June 20, 2016. 21st Century Transportation Campaign Director. For many, when they think of combating global warming, they think of solar panels on rooftops and eliminating coal fired power plants. But, the truth is, there is not an effective solution to address global warming that does not deal with transportation as well. Read more about Clean Transportation Doesn’t Need To Be A Distant Utopia. Don’t Bel...
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Label GMO Foods | WashPIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. The US. is the only industrialized country without. But some major grocery stores, like Whole Foods, have recently committed to labeling their own products. But respecting consumers' right to know by labeling whether something has GMOs should not be the celebrated exception, it should be the law. The Right To Know What We're Eating. We Can Beat Big Ag. Monsanto and other giant agribusinesses are spending millions to oppose labeling efforts Big Ag spent close to $50 mill...
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Health Care | WashPIRG
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Standing Up To Powerful Interests. Keeping our data secure. Many Washingtonians have found themselves at risk from data breaches, including those at Premera Blue Cross, TurboTax and the IRS. WashPIRG helped win a law that better protects Washington consumers’ privacy and helps us guard against data breaches. Read more about Keeping our data secure. News Release WashPIRG Foundation. WashPIRG Foundation Helps University of Washington Students Navigate New Health Insurance Landscape. Washingtonians with can...
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