Dallas Morning News: New law changing health care, costs for many Texans
While state GOP leaders rail against it, the federal health insurance law signed by President Barack Obama last year is increasingly changing care and costs for many Texans. Since Jan. 1, as a result...
View ArticleDallas Morning News: Texas receives 'incomplete' on health insurance exchange...
Texas is among 24 states, including neighbors Arkansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, that got an "incomplete" in a scorecard on health insurance exchanges that was released Tuesday by a consumer group's...
View ArticleDallas Observer: Latest Red Light Camera Study Questions the System's...
The report, Caution: Red Light Cameras Ahead, examines private companies' agreements with municipalities (about 700 throughout the country) in states that allow automated traffic law enforcement....
View ArticleKVUE: Trouble in Toyland: dangerous, toxic toys found in local stores
Many people are getting ready to go shopping this Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Before you head out, a consumer interest group has a warning about what toys to stay away from.
View ArticleFort Worth Star-Telegram: Attorney general pledges to defend Texas' voter ID law
Texas is prepared to go to federal court to defend its voter ID law if the Justice Department blocks it, according to the attorney general's office. Opponents of the bill say the law will prevent many...
View ArticleMillions of Texans benefiting from health care coverage improvements
As Texas lawmakers on the House Committee on Public Health and the House Committee on Insurance meet to discuss state implementation of the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) today, a broad coalition of...
View ArticlePrivate Loans, Public Complaints
The current debt on private student loans in the United States is estimated at $165 billion. Here in Texas student borrowers carry an average of $22,000 in debt. The Consumer Financial Protection...
View ArticleForum: Why reward polluters with tax credits?
Three years ago, when oil was still spurting into the Gulf and BP was touting the billions of dollars it set aside for claims and the cleanup, the oil giant was also preparing to deduct the price of...
View ArticleEnriquez, Visco: Tax deduction benefits BP in blast settlement
TexPIRG's recent editorial on corporate tax windfalls.
View ArticleConsumer Groups Praise HEB's Move Toward Organics
Grassroots groups say this week's move by HEB to begin offering hundreds of organic food options in their Texas stores indicates a movement toward fuller knowledge of the contents of the food we eat,...
View ArticleCredit Bureaus’ Deal to Improve Accuracy ‘Huge’ for Consumers
(Bloomberg) -- Buying homes, getting jobs and borrowing money will be easier after an agreement by the three biggest U.S. consumer credit reporting services with New York.[...] “It’s a sea change in...
View ArticleHow Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score
This story in The Nation explains our work challenging the way data brokers use "black box," or secret, algorithms to make scoring decisions that may violate the law and deny credit opportunities. This...
View ArticleHow Volkswagen Could Compensate Diesel Owners
We explain the core demand of our "Make VW Pay Campaign" in this story by New York Times columnist Ron Lieber:He asks: "Why not just ask for whatever the cars were worth on the day before news of the...
View ArticleThe Obama Administration Could Repeat Its Biggest Mistake Of The Financial...
In the years since it failed to prosecute a single Wall Street executive involved in the global financial crisis, the U.S. Department of Justice has repeatedly promised to hold corporate executives...
View ArticleVW diesel owners on cross-country drive make Chicago stop to raise awareness
A Colorado couple on a cross-country drive to return their 2011 diesel Volkswagen Jetta to the automaker's U.S. headquarters in Virginia stopped in Chicago on Friday to raise awareness about the...
View ArticleVolkswagen diesel protesters stop by auto show
But now, after U.S. auto regulators revealed the automaker had installed software designed to cheat on emissions testing of VW diesel vehicles, the Boulder residents are driving cross-country to...
View Article12 of America's Biggest Highway Boondoggles
Given that expanding highways at great public cost doesn’t improve rush-hour traffic, there are better ways to spend this money, argue report authors Jeff Inglis of Frontier Group and John C. Olivieri...
View ArticleThis Couple Is Driving Cross-Country To Return Their Polluting Jetta To VW...
Upset that Volkswagen deceived them into buying a not-so-clean diesel, Marcus Moench and Elisabeth Caspari are driving from Colorado to VW’s headquarters in Virginia to return their Jetta SportWagen...
View ArticleLATimes: Obama's consumer protection legacy defined by aggressive agency
[This weekend, the Los Angele Times chronicled President Obama's consumer protection record, with heavy emphasis on the history and fight over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB):]"[...]...
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