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Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us!

August 1st, 2010

You can purchase a signed copy of Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us! for $30.00 (includes U.S. shipping costs).
To order your signed copy of “Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us!” please click on the “Books” link at the top of this page.

SIX STATES FAIL ONLINE TRANSPARENCY BAROMETER: Three states now making full disclosure of state contracts online

June 2nd, 2010

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 2, 2010: Alaska, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, and Wyoming have failed in the last year to make progress toward fully disclosing state contracting information online, according to a survey issued today by Ralph Nader’s Center for the Study of Responsive Law (CSRL).

COALITION URGES CONGRESS TO DEMAND SUSPENSION OF FULL-BODY SCANNING IN U.S. AIRPORTS

May 28th, 2010

Ralph Nader and a coalition of consumer, privacy and civil rights groups today urged Senator Joseph Lieberman and Rep. Bennie Thompsonto demand that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stop the deployment of full-body scanning security devices in US airports until an independent review of the devices’ health effects, effectiveness and privacy safeguards is completed.

Consumers Need a Financial Consumers’ Association

May 10th, 2010

One of the most important measures we can advance to protect consumers and taxpayers is embodied in an amendment drafted by Senator Charles Schumer. Senator Schumer’s amendment (SA 3772) provides a facility to establish an independent non-governmental nonprofit Financial Consumers’ Association (FCA). FCA has broad support from leading consumer organizations.
Given the powerful influence of the [...]

The “Financial Consumers Association Act of 2010″

May 9th, 2010

The “Financial Consumers Association Act of 2010″

The text of the Financial Consumers Association Act of 2010
Senate Amendment 3772 follows:

Questions and Answers About The Financial Consumers’ Association

May 9th, 2010

The Financial Consumers’ Association
Over the last ten years the financial industry has spent, through lobbying expenditures and campaign contributions, over $5 billion pushing for and winning deregulation. This deregulation has come at a huge cost to taxpayers and consumers who currently have little voice in the regulatory debate. To protect consumers and to forestall future [...]

Consumer Groups Support Creation of Financial Consumers’ Association

May 9th, 2010

Seven States Fail to Make Full Online Disclosures in State Contracting

May 14th, 2009

State Government Contract Assessment
A survey of the online availability of state government contracting information for all 50 states and the District of Columbia
Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, and Wyoming top a list of worst offenders in full online disclosure of state contracting information, according to a survey issued today by Ralph Nader and [...]

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