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Consumers May Get a Seat at the Financial Regulatory Table

By pedro - 2009-06-17 President Obama has proposed a credit safety agency for consumers. The agency would have broad powers to ensure that credit and payment products do not have predatory or deceptive features that can harm consumers or lock them into unaffordable loans.

Google Government

By pedro - 2009-06-10 I thought that since all eyes are on the budget right now an update on the happenings around budget transparency would be appropriate.

SEC Calls Countrywide Chiefs, Crooks

By pedro - 2009-06-05 The SEC announced that they will be filing civil charges against Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo and several other company executives.

What's Wrong With the Public Health Insurance Option?

By mike - 2009-06-04 According to opposition, the problem is that it'll be too good. Or terrible. Or both?

The Knives are Starting to Come Out

By mike - 2009-05-21 With health care legislation soon to be introduced in Congress, the opposition is getting ready to attack.

Credit Card Bill Passes Senate

By Emily - 2009-05-19 The Credit CARD Act passed out of the Senate with overwhelming support today. Our Consumer Program Director Ed Mierzwinski notes, "I’ve been in Washington twenty years. For the first 19 we couldn’t even get a committee vote on credit card reform despite these [anti-consumer] practices."

Big Pharma and Big Insurance as Cost-Cutting Champions?

By mike - 2009-05-11 The special interests are moving aggressively to reduce our health care costs -- or so they say

Tough Times, Tough Choices

By Emily - 2009-05-07 This week CALPIRG endorsed Prop 1A on the May 19th ballot to enact a stronger rainy day fund for California. Read more about why.

Bringing Together Transportation Allies

By Emily - 2009-04-29 Join Congressman Xavier Becerra, Judge Quentin Kopp of the High-Speed Rail Authority, Assemblymembers Mike Eng and Bob Blumenfield, Councilmember Jan Perry, new LA MTA head Art Leahy and many others at CALPIRG's conference this Friday: 21st Century Transportation for Los Angeles.

Does Health Care Need an X-Prize?

By mike - 2009-04-20 Is health care really that much harder than space flight?

Californians Don't Get a Tax Haven, Why Should AIG?

By Emily - 2009-04-15 On Tax Day, isn't it maddening to know that some corporations pay little to no taxes? In fact, as our new report points out, corporations hide up to $100 billion in taxes very year in offshore tax havens like the Cayman Islands.

We want rail!

By Emily - 2009-04-07 A new survey released this week found more than half of Americans (54 percent) would choose modern high-speed trains over automobile (33 percent) and air travel (13 percent) if fares and travel time were about the same. Any day now we expect the Obama Administration to come out with their guidelines for the $8 billion in federal stimulus funds dedicated to inter-city trains.

Mortgage Reform From the Capitol

By pedro - 2009-03-30 Last week the most comprehensive mortgage reform bill introduced this year in the legislature passed its first committee.

Doing the Right Thing Last

By mike - 2009-03-25 The health insurers' trade group has finally said they're willing to accept a health care reform that stops them from discriminating against the sick.

President Clinton Gets It Right

By mike - 2009-03-13 It's been a busy few weeks in the health care world, but it's former President Clinton who had one of the most interesting takes on reform.

Paying for Change

By mike - 2009-02-27 This week, President Obama took the first steps in his effort to reform the country's health care system.

Realtors' Poll Highlights Public Support for Transit and Smart Growth

By Emily - 2009-02-26 A poll just released by the National Association of Realtors and Transportation for America found that when it comes to the top priorities for federal transportation funding, 47 percent of those polled preferred improving public transportation, 25 percent chose building communities that encourage people not to drive, and 20 percent preferred building new roads.

Repair transportation or fuel congestion?

By erin - 2009-02-03 The House officially passed H.R. 1, the American Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act last Wednesday. Now the transportation ball is in the Senate’s court.

Fighting to Keep Health Care Unaffordable

By mike - 2009-02-13 Special interests will spend millions to keep the rest of us paying billions

California gets an "A"! (It's not the good kind)

By pedro - 2009-02-05 The foreclosure crisis takes California's economy to a new low.

View From the Other Side

By mike - 2009-01-28 CALPIRG Health Care Advocate Mike Russo reports from the inside of a drug industry conference.

Billions for Roads?

By Emily - 2009-01-26 Last week the House of Representatives introduced an economic recovery package that marked 75 percent of transportation funding to roads, and only 25 percent to public transportation projects. What an old, out-dated way of funding transportation.

Legislators Need To Open Their Eyes To Public Transit

By kevin - 2009-01-22 CALPIRG fellow Kevin Powers critiques the way legislators have overlooked the benefits of public transit funding.

For Drug Company, $1.4 Billion is Just the Cost of Doing Business

By mike - 2009-01-15 Drug giant Eli Lilly is in the final stages of negotiating a settlement in a case alleging that it marketed Zyprexa, an antipsychotic drug, for purposes that the FDA never approved.

President-Elect Barack Obama on High-Speed Rail

By Emily - 2008-11-05 We couldn't be more thrilled that California voters committed to high-speed rail by passing Prop 1A. Although there's still a long road ahead to getting the train on tracks, I'd be a lot more nervous if we didn't have such strong support from state and national leaders. Here's what President-Elect Barack Obama, Vice-President Elect Joseph Biden, and other California leaders have said about high-speed rail.

High Speed Rail Plan A Key Ballot Measure

By kevin - 2008-10-14 An Op/Ed authored by CALPIRG Fellow Kevin Powers that has been published in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, the San Bernardino Sun, and the California Progress Report. Kevin outlines the economic, environmental, and institutional benefits of High-Speed Rail in California.

A High Speed Labor Day In California?

By kevin - 2008-09-02 An Op/Ed published in the California Progress Report on Labor Day. CALPIRG Fellow Kevin Powers outlines the benefits of California's proposed high-speed rail for all those stuck in traffic on Labor Day.

High Speed Success

By kevin - 2008-08-29 High-speed rail isn't a new or revolutionary concept. Countries like Japan have been using it, very successfully, for decades.

And the Winner of our Transportation Video Contest Is...

By Emily - 2008-08-24 Meet Dan. Dan loves sitting in traffic. Continue reading to watch a funny video about a man who would be sad to see traffic congestion ease up if Congress invests more funding in public transit.

Mortgage Reform Brokered

By pedro - 2008-08-20 After hard fought negotiations between the mortgage industry and consumer groups we have reached agreement on what should be in the comprehensive mortgage reform bill.

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