Private 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleCommentary: Why America’s health can’t afford any budget cuts to CDC
Why are President Trump’s proposed cuts to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention such a bad idea? One big reason is that they are on the forefront of what Dr. Tom Frieden, former CDC...
View ArticleTrouble in Toyland: Dangerous toys in stores
Our Director, Bay Scoggin, was on KVUE Daybreak this morning, bright and early, at 630, letting mom's and dad's know which toys to avoid this holiday season.
View ArticleVW settlement plan falls short of Houston’s pollution share
As Texas plans to spend the $209 million awarded by the Volkswagen "Dieselgate" scandal, TexPIRG Director Bay Scoggin is quoted as being "concerned" about the plan released late last week. While the...
View ArticleReport lists I-45 rebuild project among nation’s biggest highway boondoggles
A massive remake of Interstate 45 from downtown Houston north to the Sam Houston Tollway that would be among the largest road projects in the region’s history also is one of the nation’s biggest...
View ArticleHouston’s $7 billion solution to gridlock is more highways
Like many American cities, Houston is encircled by rings of highways—nine major radial freeways, three ring freeways, and a 180-mile fourth outer ring on the way.But Houston isn’t just encircled by...
View Article1 in 7 used cars at Texas AutoNation lots have unrepaired safety recalls,...
America's largest auto retailer AutoNation is selling used vehicles with unrepaired safety recalls, according to a study by the Texas Public Interest Research Group Education Fund. Those recalls...
View ArticleTexas group warns about hidden dangers in toys
The Texas Public Interest Research Group (TexPIRG) has released its 2019 “Trouble in Toyland” report defining three safety categories parents should watch for in their children’s toys: detectable...
View ArticleTexas group warns about hidden dangers in toys
Texas Public Interest Research Group (TexPIRG) has released its 2019 “Trouble in Toyland” report defining three safety categories parents should watch for in their children’s toys: detectable dangers,...
View ArticleThe Watchdog: Tornado damage attracts bad guys, but here’s one who got away —...
A new report from TexPIRG, a consumer public-interest group, accuses AutoNation, the nation’s largest auto retailer, of selling cars that required recall repairs that weren’t done.
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