Representation Without Taxation
Released by: ConnPIRG and Citizens for Tax Justice Release date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012Thirty Fortune 500 Companies Paid More to Lobby Congress than they Did in Federal Income TaxesCTP RepTax...
View ArticleRobo-Signing Settlement With Big Banks Is Important Step
For Immediate Release Thursday, February 9, 2012Ed MierzwinskiStatement From Consumer Program Director Ed Mierzwinski "Today's settlement by the U.S. and 49 state attorneys general with the 5 biggest...
View ArticleFighting The High Cost Of Rx Drugs
DRIVING UP THE COST OF RX DRUGSWe all know prescription drugs cost too much. That’s partly because brand-name drug companies have been paying off generic drug makers to delay competition and keep...
View ArticleHouse Floor Vote on Budget Delayed over Special Interest "Riders" From Wall...
Thursday, December 11, 2014Ed MierzwinskiUPDATE: Opposition to a controversial provision authored by Citibank forced House leaders to delay consideration of the "CRomnibus" appropriations package just...
View ArticleCredit Bureaus’ Deal to Improve Accuracy ‘Huge’ for Consumers
U.S. PIRG Bloomberg News Monday, March 9, 2015Margaret Collins & Christie Smythe(Bloomberg) -- Buying homes, getting jobs and borrowing money will be easier after an agreement by the three biggest...
View ArticleAs NY Brings Credit Bureaus To Heel, CFPB Arbitration Study Paves Way Toward...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015Ed MierzwinskiTwo big consumer stories so far this week offer hope to consumers victimized by credit bureau errors and, more generally, by an inability to take credit bureaus,...
View ArticleThe More I Hear About OPM Data Breach, The Less I Know, Except This: It's Bad
Wednesday, June 24, 2015Ed MierzwinskiWas it 4 million, 14 million or 18 million records breached (likely by state-sponsored) Chinese hackers?Whose fault was it? Incredibly, the USOPM director...
View ArticleTips For OPM & Other Data Breach Victims-What Can You Do To Avoid Identity...
The latest breach of up to 18 million or more federal government employee files held by U.S. OPM is an example of everything that's wrong with data security and data breach response mechanisms today....
View ArticleLetter to CFPB & FTC on Experian/T-Mobile Data Breach
Financial Reform U.S. PIRG Following a breach of a subsidiary of the nationwide credit bureau Experian affecting 15 million customers and applicants of T-Mobile, a number of state PIRGs have joined...
View ArticlePrivacy, We've Got Tips and Ideas For You, Congress and Regulators, Too
Thursday, October 29, 2015Ed MierzwinskiHi, this quick "roundup" blog is designed to give you an idea of all the work we've been doing lately to protect your privacy. There's a lot that we're doing...
View ArticleThirty Fortune 500 Companies Paid More to Lobby Congress than they Did in...
For Immediate Release Wednesday, January 18, 2012WASHINGTON, January 18, 2012 – With the second anniversary approaching of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United case – which opened the...
View ArticleRepresentation Without Taxation
Released by: ConnPIRG and Citizens for Tax Justice Release date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012Thirty Fortune 500 Companies Paid More to Lobby Congress than they Did in Federal Income TaxesCTP RepTax...
View ArticleThirty Fortune 500 Companies Paid More to Lobby Congress than they Did in...
For Immediate Release Wednesday, January 18, 2012WASHINGTON, January 18, 2012 – With the second anniversary approaching of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United case – which opened the...
View ArticleHouse Committee Launches Trojan Horse Assault On State Privacy Laws
Tuesday, December 8, 2015Ed MierzwinskiThis afternoon (Tuesday, 8 December), the U.S. House Financial Services Committee is expected to pass HR 2205, the bi-partisan Data Security Act of 2015. The bill...
View ArticleDebating trade and consumer protection in Brussels today
Tuesday, January 26, 2016Ed Mierzwinski Today in Brussels I am part of a public forum organized by the PIRG-backed TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue to debate the impact of the pending TTIP trade...
View ArticleCFPB Criticizes Banks Re Account Opening and Overdrafts, Offers Consumer Tips
Wednesday, February 3, 2016Ed MierzwinskiToday, right now, the CFPB is holding a field hearing in Louisville on problems consumers face when opening bank accounts. (If you miss the live video, it will...
View Article100+ Groups Oppose Provisions That Threaten Public Protections
Monday, February 8, 2016The White House is expected to release its fiscal year 2017 budget proposal tomorrow. U.S. PIRG and various state PIRGs joined a coalition of more than 100 groups that sent the...
View ArticleMore Than 100 Groups Insist on No Riders in Spending Legislation
For Immediate Release Monday, February 8, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C. – The day before the White House is expected to release its fiscal year 2017 budget proposal, a coalition of more than 100 groups,...
View ArticleWe oppose latest effort to weaken CFPB, other bank regulators
Wednesday, March 2, 2016Ed MierzwinskiToday, the House Financial Services Committee holds its latest cattle-call markup of a package of industry-backed bills designed to weaken consumer, taxpayer,...
View ArticlePrivacy, Consumer Groups Critical of Facial Recognition Report
For Immediate Release Wednesday, June 15, 2016Ed MierzwinskiWe've joined leading privacy and consumer advocates in a news release sharply critical of the process and results of a supposed...
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