Green Bay Press Gazette: Guest column: Wasteful Farm Bill subsidies are...
With the U.S. Senate turning to debate the federal Farm Bill this week, you might think that only farmers should care. But in reality, the decisions they make impact all of us, because there's a real...
View ArticleParts of Affordable Health Care Law Already in Effect
The U.S. Supreme Court will rule Thursday whether all or parts of the Affordable Health Care Act the Obama Administration designed are constitutional. Several facets of the act have already been...
View ArticleSuper PACs, secret donors dominate 2012 campaign in WI
The Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group (WISPIRG) has found that Super PACs and other groups, whose donors often remain anonymous, have already spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to...
View ArticleSecret Money Pours into Election
New report details secret money pouring into Wisconsin elections. Outside spending organizations reported $167.5 million in spending to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). “The most disturbing thing...
View ArticleFree checking still widely available, report says; some banks mum on fee info
Free checking can still be found at financial institutions in Wisconsin and nationwide, but consumers are more likely to see it at smaller banks and at credit unions than at some of the biggest banks,...
View ArticleIs Scott Walker Killing Off Public Transit?
Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget could provide the death knell for public transit systems across the state. Although he has a $419 million budget surplus that he could use to...
View ArticleWisconsin's Government Receives "F" for Financial Transparency Online
Wisconsin is one of five states that received an "F" Tuesday for how it makes government spending available online.
View ArticleEnvironmentalists, Municipal Leaders: Let's Fix Roads, Not Build New Ones
Some municipal leaders and environmentalists say Governor Scott Walker's proposed transportation budget is out of sync.
View ArticleScott Walker's rent-to-own budget provision brings strong reaction
Rent-to-own stores would be able to sell customers high-cost financing plans for televisions, appliances and other goods without disclosing their interest rates, under a provision in Gov. Scott...
View ArticleState needs to build better transportation budget
The state needs a better transportation budget. . . . . One promising idea is a proposal from 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, WISPIRG and the state chapter of the Sierra Club to cut 10% from highway...
View ArticleUsing 'Pay for Delay,' Big Pharma Pockets $98 Billion
What if I told you that major pharmaceutical companies had paid off their competition to delay the release of lower-cost generic drugs for 20 major pharmaceuticals? And that combined, brand name drug...
View ArticleWe don’t need more money in politics
Outside the Capitol, citizens of every political stripe believe money is playing far too great a role in elections, is having a poisonous effect on governing and needs to be reined in. But a bill...
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 ArticleSuper PACs, secret donors dominate 2012 campaign in WI
The Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group (WISPIRG) has found that Super PACs and other groups, whose donors often remain anonymous, have already spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to...
View ArticleSecret Money Pours into Election
New report details secret money pouring into Wisconsin elections. Outside spending organizations reported $167.5 million in spending to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). “The most disturbing thing...
View ArticleSuper PACs, secret donors dominate 2012 campaign in WI
The Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group (WISPIRG) has found that Super PACs and other groups, whose donors often remain anonymous, have already spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to...
View ArticleSecret Money Pours into Election
New report details secret money pouring into Wisconsin elections. Outside spending organizations reported $167.5 million in spending to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). “The most disturbing thing...
View ArticleWill Yum! Brands Commit to Better Antibiotic Stewardship Policies?
"Despite these successes, we need to re-double our efforts to counter new threats from superbugs that increasingly diminish the effectiveness of antibiotics. We will continue to ramp up our consumer...
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):]"[...]...
View ArticleIs Scott Walker Killing Off Public Transit?
Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget could provide the death knell for public transit systems across the state. Although he has a $419 million budget surplus that he could use to...
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