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Apples to Twinkies 2012
Released by: CALPIRG Education Fund Release date: Wednesday, July 25, 2012Ag Subsidies Pay for 21 Twinkies per Taxpayer, But Only Half of an Apple ApieceApples to Twinkies vCA.pdfExecutive SummaryAt a...
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Million-Dollar Megaphones
Released by: CALPIRG Release date: Tuesday, August 7, 2012MegaphonesMillionaires-DemosUSPIRG.pdfExecutive SummaryAlthough each major party presidential candidate will likely break previous fundraising...
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Big Banks Bigger Fees 2012
Released by: CALPIRG Education Fund Release date: Thursday, November 15, 2012CALIFORNIABanks12.pdfExecutive SummarySince Congress largely deregulated consumer deposit (checking and savings) accounts...
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Trouble in Toyland 2012
Released by: CALPIRG Education Fund Release date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012CAP Toyland2012.pdfThe 2012 Trouble in Toyland report is the 27th annual U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) survey...
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Comments on the Aetna Life Insurance Company Proposal to Increase Rates
Released by: CALPIRG Education Fund Release date: Monday, December 3, 2012Aetna 0182 Rate Review _ CALPIRG.pdfExecutive Summary Nearly 70,000 Californians in small group insurance plans will see rate...
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CALPIRG joint letter on Consumer protection for “California Covered”
Released by: CALPIRG Education Fund Release date: Wednesday, December 5, 2012CalHEERS Business Requirements FINAL comments 11-30-12.pdfPeter Lee, Executive Director The California Health Benefit...
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Review of Anthem's Rate Increase on Individual Policies
Released by: CALPIRG Education Fund Release date: Friday, January 4, 2013Anthem Individual Feb 2012 _ CALPIRG _FINAL.pdfExecutive SummaryNearly 340,000 Californians in individual insurance plans will...
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Subsidizing Bad Behavoir
Released by: CALPIRG Education Fund Release date: Friday, January 4, 2013Subsidizing Bad Behavior USPIRG EF.pdfBP’s recent $4.5 billion legal settlement with the Justice Department for its misdeeds in...
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Transparency in City Spending
Released by: CALPIRG Education Fund Release date: Wednesday, January 23, 2013CALPIRG_Transparency_in_City_Spending_v6_print.pdf Executive SummaryThe ability to see how government uses the public purse...
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The Hidden Cost of Offshore Tax Havens
Released by: CALPIRG Education Fund Release date: Tuesday, February 5, 2013WEB The Hidden Cost of Offshore Tax Havens vCA.pdfExecutive SummaryWhen U.S. corporations and wealthy individuals use...
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Following the Money 2013
Released by: CALPIRG Education Fund Release date: Tuesday, March 26, 2013New Report: California Receives an “F” in Annual Report on Transparency of Government...
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Picking Up the Tab 2013
Released by: CALPIRG Release date: Thursday, April 4, 2013CALPIRG Picking Up the Tab.pdfExecutive SummarySome U.S.-based multinational firms and individuals avoid paying U.S. taxes by using accounting...
View ArticleA New Direction
The Driving Boom—a six decade-long period of steady increases in per-capita driving in the United States—is over.Americans drive fewer total miles today than we did eight years ago, and fewer per...
View ArticlePrescription for Danger
New report shows that compounding pharmacies have been exploiting loopholes in the regulatory system for at least a decade.
View ArticleComments on the Blue Shield of California Proposal to Increase Small Employer...
After analysis of the complete filing – inclusive of the three subsequent submissions – it appears that for the most part, Blue Shield provided sufficient background data for the requested rate...
View ArticleIssue Brief: Student Loan Debt in California
Without a new plan from Congress, on July 1 the interest rate on subsidiezed Stafford student loans will double, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. This brief highlights the impact on California...
View ArticleThe Future is Calling
CALPIRG Education Fund releases a new report titled explaining how mobile payment systems work while providing consumers with the information they need to best utilize mobile payment systems in a safe...
View ArticleCalHEERS: Protecting Consumer Data by Developing and Implementing Strong...
CALPIRG Education Fund is pleased to provide recommendations on best practices and standards for the development and implementation of strong physical, technical and administrative security...
View ArticleComments on the Health Net Life Insurance Company Proposal to Submit New...
Overall Health Net's proposed rates appear to be unreasonably high when compared to identical products offered by competing health insurance providers.
View ArticleTop Twenty Pay-For-Delay Drugs
Californians with cancer, heart disease, epilepsy and other conditions have been forced to pay an average of 10 times more than necessary for at least 20 blockbuster drugs, according to a report...
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