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Citizens United Measure for L.A. Ballot Moves Forward

The City Council preliminarily agreed today to ask Los Angeles voters in May to support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution declaring that corporations are not people -- an effort to limit their ability to influence elections.

Austin Price, field director with the California Public Interest Research Group, hailed the council's action. "This gives citizens the opportunity to use the very tools of our democracy to reclaim it from the undue influence of big money," Price said.

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Farm Bill Needs to Cut Dangerous Pork

With Congress back in session, the biggest remaining item on its to-do list is how to deal with the farm bill before it expires at the end of September. The farm bill sets our nation’s agricultural and food policy, including a raft of food-related programs such as food assistance and rural development programs. But it also authorizes a set of misguided agricultural subsidy programs that lavish billions of taxpayer dollars on large, profitable agribusinesses.

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Congress Needs to Cut Wasteful Agricultural Subsidies from Farm Bill

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Reuters: How you can benefit from the Capital One settlement

Ed Mierzwinski, U.S. PIRG consumer program director, comments on the first enforcement action by the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, which is about to hit its first anniversary.

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Financial loss from identity theft increasing, report says

Higher dollar loss per victim of identity theft, according to a new report by the California Public Interest Research Group.
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