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News Release | Florida PIRG | Transportation

Data Shows 290 Bridges in Florida Remain Structurally Deficient on Eve of Obama Bridge Speech

With President Obama calling for robust investments in repairing America’s crumbling roads and bridges today, Florida PIRG released data today documenting the number of “structurally deficient” bridges in the state.

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Report | Florida PIRG | Transportation

Fixing it First

America’s infrastructure is showing its age. Our nation’s roads, highways and bridges have increasingly received failing scores on maintenance and upkeep. For the nation’s bridges, lack of maintenance can result in the sudden closure of a critical transportation link or, far worse, a collapse that results in lost lives and a significant loss in regional economic productivity.

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Report | Food

Apples to Twinkies

America is facing an obesity epidemic – one that’s hitting children especially hard. Childhood obesity rates have tripled over the last three decades, with one in five kids aged 6 to 11 now obese.

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News Release | Florida PIRG | Consumer Protection, Financial Reform

Florida Consumer Groups Release Poll Showing Strong Support for CFPB and Wall Street Reform & New Report Showing “10 Reasons” We Need Consumer Protection

Leading Florida consumer groups today announced the results of a poll showing that an overwhelming majority of likely voters both support a new consumer agency (74%) and want Wall Street held “accountable” (77%), along with a new report documenting “10 reasons” consumers need the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Today, the new Bureau will take over enforcement of all major consumer laws.

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Report | U.S. PIRG Education Fund | Financial Reform

10 Reasons We Need The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Now

This report outlines predatory financial practices that hurt consumers and helped collapse the economy, costing us eight million jobs, millions of foreclosed homes and trillions of dollars in lost home and retirement values. It explains these and other emerging problems as “10 Reasons We Need The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Now.” In response to the problems caused by those predatory practices, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 included a major reform demanded by the public: it established the landmark Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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News Release | Florida PIRG Education Fund | Consumer Protection

Trouble in Toyland: Florida PIRG Offers Tips and Interactive Tools to Help Consumers Shop Safely

Dangerous and toxic toys can still be found on America’s store shelves, Florida Public Interest Research Group announced today in its 25th annual Trouble in Toyland report.

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News Release | Florida PIRG | Transportation

New Report: High-Speed Rail Around the World and Its Promise for Florida

Today Florida PIRG released a major new report, A Track Record of Success: High-Speed Rail Around the World and Its Promise for America.

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News Release | Florida PIRG | Democracy

Foreign Funds in American Elections

This week we learned that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce could be using money from foreign corporations to fund attack ads in our elections. According to reporting released by Think Progress, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce collects hundreds of thousands of dollars from foreign owned businesses, including companies owned by foreign governments.

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News Release | Florida PIRG | Democracy

Statement in Response to Event For Opposition Campaign to Fair Districts Amendments 5 & 6

It is no surprise that politicians are leading the charge in the campaign to defeat Amendments 5 and 6. They are twisting the truth just so they can continue making political deals in order to hold on to their power.

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News Release | Florida PIRG | Food

Egg Recalls Reveal Scrambled Food Safety System

Last month’s nationwide recall of half a billion eggs was just one of more than 85 recalls involving 153 food companies since July 2009.  During this time, the U.S. Senate has failed to pass needed protections, according to “Recipe for Disaster”, a Study released today by Florida PIRG, Consumer Federation of America and the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

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Report | Florida PIRG Education Fund | Health Care

Delivering On The Promise

The recently passed federal health care reform law will make significant changes in how health insurance and health care work for consumers, businesses, and local and state governments, as well as how insurers and providers operate.  But whether Americans experience improved care, lower costs and greater access depends largely on what happens next.

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Report | Florida PIRG Education Fund | Democracy

Following the Money

This report evaluates states’ progress toward “Transparency 2.0”—a new standard of comprehensive, one-stop, one-click budget accountability and accessibility. At least 7 states have become leaders in the drive toward Transparency 2.0, launching easy-to-use, searchable Web sites with a wide range of spending transparency information.

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Report | Florida PIRG | Democracy

Show Us The Stimulus (Again)

A report released today shows that many states are making dramatic improvements in websites designed to disseminate information about their share of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), while others have failed to make vital information available.

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Report | Florida PIRG Education Fund | Consumer Protection

Trouble in Toyland: The 24th Annual Survey of Toy Safety

The 2009 Trouble in Toyland report is the 24th annual Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) survey of toy safety.  This report provides safety guidelines for parents when purchasing toys for small children and provides examples of toys currently on store shelves that may pose potential safety hazards.

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Report | Florida PIRG Education Fund | Consumer Protection

A Public Interest Internet Agenda

Broadband access is crucial to economic, educational and democratic participation in Florida and it’s critical that government make consumer friendly choices that empower communities while bringing access to every corner of the state. Without consumer protective policies to guide them, the handful of corporations that sell broadband have done so at runaway rates, with poor service and have even avoided serving broadband to many of our most vulnerable communities.

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  • STOP TAX DODGERS
    Corporate tax avoidance cost taxpayers $100 billion last year. We're working to close the loopholes that allow companies to avoid paying the taxes they owe.
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  • YOUR TAX DOLLARS BECOME CORN SYRUP
    At a time when one-in-three kids is overweight or obese, over a billion taxpayer dollars go to high-fructose corn syrup and junk food ingredients.
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  • Reclaim Democracy
    The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision ushered in an era of unprecedented spending by big money in our elections, but we're working to return our democracy back to the principle of "one person, one vote."
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  • BUILDING A BETTER HEALTH CARE MARKETPLACE
    Now the fight for health care reform is in Florida.
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