On Anniversary of Financial Crisis, Pennsylvanians Look to Congressman...
For Immediate Release Monday, September 14, 2009 Philadelphia, PA – One year ago this week Lehman Brothers collapsed in New York and the ripple effect began to spread to Pennsylvania. Today, as the...
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PennPIRG Protecting Consumers Scraton Times-Tribune Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Megan DeSmedt Editor: It is not getting much attention locally but the big banks, the mortgage lenders and the insurance...
View ArticleWe Need a Watchog: On eve of committee vote, consumer group petitions for reform
For Immediate Release Tuesday, October 20, 2009 SCRANTON, Oct. 20 – Local residents and statewide consumer group PennPIRG, the Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group, called for meaningful...
View ArticleNew Survey Shows Banks Still Hiding Fees from Consumers
For Immediate Release Tuesday, April 12, 2011 PHILADELPHIA, April 12 – A survey released today by the Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group of more than 350 bank branches revealed that fewer...
View ArticleTen Reasons We Need Consumer Financial Protection
Released by: U.S. PIRG Education Fund Release date: Thursday, July 21, 2011 New Consumer Agency Takes Over Thursday as Nation’s Consumer Bank Cop tenreasonsweneedcfpbfinal19julyAFR_USPIRG.pdf For...
View ArticleNew Consumer Agency Takes Over Thursday as Nation’s Consumer Bank Cop
For Immediate Release Thursday, July 21, 2011 Philadelphia, PA—Leading consumer groups today announced the results of a poll showing that an overwhelming majority of likely voters both support a new...
View ArticlePost-Gazette: Please protect consumers, Sen. Toomey
PennPIRG Protecting Consumers Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Thursday, October 6, 2011 Alana Miller For more than two months, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau -- a centerpiece of the 2010 Wall Street...
View ArticleIf our political leaders REALLY want to help small business…
Blog Wednesday, October 19, 2011 It seems like almost every other word we hear from our political leaders is about the need to support small businesses to get the economy back on track. As small...
View ArticleReining in Wall Street
For years federal bank regulators ignored numerous warnings of increasingly predatory mortgage practices, credit card tricks and unfair overdraft policies used by the big Wall Street banks. They also...
View ArticleA VICTORY FOR CONSUMERS OVER WALL STREET
Even after the financial crisis, lobbyists for the big banks and credit card companies furiously opposed pro-consumer provisions in the Wall Street reform law. We helped convince Congress to ignore...
View ArticleFighting The High Cost Of Rx Drugs
DRIVING UP THE COST OF RX DRUGSWe all know prescription drugs cost too much. That’s partly because brand-name drug companies have been paying off generic drug makers to delay competition and keep...
View ArticleAs NY Brings Credit Bureaus To Heel, CFPB Arbitration Study Paves Way Toward...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015Ed MierzwinskiTwo big consumer stories so far this week offer hope to consumers victimized by credit bureau errors and, more generally, by an inability to take credit bureaus,...
View ArticleThe More I Hear About OPM Data Breach, The Less I Know, Except This: It's Bad
Wednesday, June 24, 2015Ed MierzwinskiWas it 4 million, 14 million or 18 million records breached (likely by state-sponsored) Chinese hackers?Whose fault was it? Incredibly, the USOPM director...
View ArticleLetter to CFPB & FTC on Experian/T-Mobile Data Breach
Financial Reform U.S. PIRG Following a breach of a subsidiary of the nationwide credit bureau Experian affecting 15 million customers and applicants of T-Mobile, a number of state PIRGs have joined...
View ArticlePrivacy, We've Got Tips and Ideas For You, Congress and Regulators, Too
Thursday, October 29, 2015Ed MierzwinskiHi, this quick "roundup" blog is designed to give you an idea of all the work we've been doing lately to protect your privacy. There's a lot that we're doing...
View ArticleHouse Committee Launches Trojan Horse Assault On State Privacy Laws
Tuesday, December 8, 2015Ed MierzwinskiThis afternoon (Tuesday, 8 December), the U.S. House Financial Services Committee is expected to pass HR 2205, the bi-partisan Data Security Act of 2015. The bill...
View ArticleDebating trade and consumer protection in Brussels today
Tuesday, January 26, 2016Ed Mierzwinski Today in Brussels I am part of a public forum organized by the PIRG-backed TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue to debate the impact of the pending TTIP trade...
View ArticleCFPB Criticizes Banks Re Account Opening and Overdrafts, Offers Consumer Tips
Wednesday, February 3, 2016Ed MierzwinskiToday, right now, the CFPB is holding a field hearing in Louisville on problems consumers face when opening bank accounts. (If you miss the live video, it will...
View Article100+ Groups Oppose Provisions That Threaten Public Protections
Monday, February 8, 2016The White House is expected to release its fiscal year 2017 budget proposal tomorrow. U.S. PIRG and various state PIRGs joined a coalition of more than 100 groups that sent the...
View ArticleMore Than 100 Groups Insist on No Riders in Spending Legislation
For Immediate Release Monday, February 8, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C. – The day before the White House is expected to release its fiscal year 2017 budget proposal, a coalition of more than 100 groups,...
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