Media Coverage
Media Coverage
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| Mar 31, 2009 |
''Congress Considers Limits on Credit Card Companies'' "Democrats in Congress are taking a swipe at credit card issuers and their increasingly creative reasons for raising fees on strapped consumers, sparking a well-financed duel over how to crack down on alleged abuses." Source: Philadelphia Inquirer |
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| Jun 19, 2012 |
''Congress poised to pass safety-focused FDA bill'' "A bill designed to beef up the safety of the nation's prescription drug supply is poised to pass Congress, but without a tracking system that public health advocates say is critical to weeding out counterfeit pharmaceuticals." Source: The Associated Press |
Drug Safety |
| Nov 15, 2011 |
''Congress pushes back on healthier school lunches'' "In an effort many 9-year-olds will cheer, Congress wants pizza and french fries to stay on school lunch lines and is fighting the Obama administration's efforts to take unhealthy foods out of schools.The final version of a spending bill released late Monday would unravel school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year. These include limiting the use of potatoes on the lunch line, putting new restrictions on sodium and boosting the use of whole grains. The legislation would block or delay all of those efforts." Source: Associated Press |
School Food |
| May 20, 2009 |
''Congress Sends Obama a Bill with Sweeping New Rules for the Credit Card Industry'' ''Congress on Wednesday sent President Barack Obama a bill with sweeping new rules for the credit card industry that will affect just about every American. The House voted 361-64 for the bill on Wednesday. The Senate had already approved the measure by a 90-5 vote on Tuesday.'' Source: Newsday |
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| Aug 1, 2008 |
''Congress Takes on Chemicals'' Congress is venturing into new regulatory territory with a recent ban on several varieties of the plasticizing chemicals known as pthalates. Usually government agencies regulate products on the market, but environmental health advocates say this latest ban shows Congress is picking up the slack on chemical regulation. Host Bruce Gellerman talks with Andy Igrejas of the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Environmental Health Campaign. Source: living on earth |
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| Sep 24, 2009 |
''Congress to Speed New Credit Rules to Stop Bad Bank Behavior'' "Bankers groups are crying foul as legislators moved today to speed up implementation of credit card reform in the wake of a flood of rate hikes and customer cancellations." Source: CBS MoneyWatch |
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| Aug 1, 2003 |
Considering the Context - Lifecycle of a Social Issue Few people would equate grantmaking with farming, but the comparison may be apt. Farmers adapt their crop decisions to different variables of soil and climate and develop a keen sense for when their crops are ripe and should be harvested. Like a farmer, a grantmaker must consider conditions, timing and ripeness to be effective. For a grantmaker, timing and ripeness occur not within a crop’s growth cycle, but within the lifecycle--or development stages--of a social issue. An issue goes through stages set off by events or societal shifts and is carried forward by how groups in society decide to respond. Because issues evolve in a social context that is constantly changing, a grantmaker can more clearly determine how it might address them if it has a framework to understand the lifecycle. Source: Trust Magazine |
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| Mar 5, 2013 |
''Construction That Focuses on Health of Residents'' The New York Times interviews Aaron Wernham, project director for the Health Impact Project, about the growing field of health impact assessments. Source: The New York Times |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Jan 9, 2011 |
''Consumer 10.0: Food safety finally gets its due'' The incredible, edible egg - or at least those coming from two rodent-infested Iowa egg farms - caused 1,937 traceable illnesses from Salmonella enteritidis last year, which means the contaminated eggs probably sickened nearly 60,000 people nationwide. Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer |
Food Hazards |
| Nov 3, 2011 |
''Consumer 10.0: How the Pew Trusts aided credit card reform'' "It was early 2007, and Michael Roster and Dwane Krumme each viewed the credit card industry with growing dismay." Source: Philly Tablet Inquirer |
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| Jul 12, 2011 |
''Consumer Confidential: Outsourced meds, Social Security tool, Casey Anthony hoax'' "Where does our medicine come from? Increasingly, the answer is overseas, where safety standards can be lower." Source: The Los Angeles Times |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Oct 18, 2010 |
''Consumer Reports: Most Patients Worry About Pharma Payments to Doctors'' "In a nationally-representative survey by Consumer Reports of 1,250 adults, more than three-fourths said they would be “very” or “somewhat” concerned about getting the best treatment or advice if their doctor were accepting drug-company money." Source: Pro Publica |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Jul 22, 2011 |
''Consumers Hold High Hopes for New Bureau'' ''If you've ever thought someone was playing fast and lose with the rules on your credit cards, credit score or mortgage, but you had no idea where to go with your complaint, you now have a place to turn.'' Source: The Chicago Tribune |
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| May 18, 2011 |
''Consumers must watch for unregulated credit cards'' "The sudden interest-rate hikes, high fees and steep penalties that last year's credit card regulations were designed to eliminate are still lurking in one segment of the credit card market: cards designated for businesses." Source: WTOP 103.5 FM |
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| Jan 14, 2010 |
''Consumers score a win on credit card rules'' "Consumers scored a few unexpected victories in a set of Federal Reserve rules issued earlier this week. The Fed issued 1,155 pages of rules Tuesday telling banks how to comply with new laws regulating credit cards that go into effect on Feb. 22. In a handful of cases, in which the law was unclear, federal regulators used their discretion to go a step further to protect consumers." Source: CNN Money |
