Media Coverage
Media Coverage
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| May 22, 2009 |
''Credit Card Law Has Some Unplanned Booby Traps, Including Higher Rates, Fees, Tighter Credit'' "The new credit card law is receiving widespread kudos as a victory for cardholders over the lenders that impose "gotcha" fees and penalties with scant justification and little notice." Source: Los Angeles Times |
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| 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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| May 20, 2009 |
''Credit Card Bill a Boon to Consumers'' "It's not a bailout, but this could be quite a week for consumers, with the President expected to sign by Memorial Day the most sweeping reforms of credit card industry regulations in more than 20 years." Source: The Hartford Courant |
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| May 20, 2009 |
''Bill Aims to Soften Credit Card Rate Shocks'' ''The Senate passed legislation Tuesday to protect credit card holders from sudden interest rate increases, but consumer groups and card issuers warned that people are still likely to face obstacles in getting and maintaining credit.'' Source: The Miami Herald |
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| May 19, 2009 |
''Graduates Get Option to Repay Student Loans Based on Income'' Starting July 1, borrowers will have a new option: a repayment program that caps monthly payments based on income. It targets borrowers who would have a hard time paying basic living expenses if they had to make standard monthly payments on their loans, says Lauren Asher, acting president for the Project on Student Debt. Source: USA Today |
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| May 17, 2009 |
"Congress is on the verge of passing legislation that would transform the way credit card companies and consumers interact." Source: The Washington Post |
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| May 15, 2009 |
''Credit Card Reform Confronts Multiple Consumer Complaints'' "Congress is expected to send credit card reform legislation to President Barack Obama for signing by the Memorial Day weekend." Source: The Tennessean |
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| Apr 30, 2009 |
''About That New, 'Friendly' Consumer Contract'' "Out of the ashes of the financial crisis small flowers are beginning to bloom. One is an initiative in Washington—and among some companies—to curb ambiguous and sometimes abusive consumer contracts, especially in the credit-card industry. But before anyone celebrates the budding reforms, it's worth looking at how an earlier campaign to clean up customer agreements led right back to confusion and frustration." Source: Bloomberg Businessweek |
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| Apr 28, 2009 |
''Food that’s 'To Die For' Shouldn’t Actually Kill You'' ''Americans are hungry for action. Congress should act now.''
Source: Politico, The Hill, Roll Call and Congress Daily |
Food Hazards |
| Apr 28, 2009 |
''Pew Featured on Nightline - ABC News'' ''Washington, D.C. - Robert Martin, senior officer with the Pew Environment Group, discusses the two main findings from the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production's report Putting Meat on the Table.''
Source: Nightline - ABC News |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 27, 2009 |
''Pew Featured on CBS Evening News'' ''Washington, D.C. - In response to the swine flu outbreak, Robert Martin, a senior officer with the Pew Environment Group, discusses industrial hog farms and their potential as prime breeding grounds for new virus strains.'' Source: CBS Evening News |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 27, 2009 |
''Save Antibiotics to Save Human Lives'' ''In 2005, an estimated 18,000 people nationwide died from MRSA, one of the growing number of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.'' Source: Public News Service |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 27, 2009 |
''U.S. Bracing For Swine Flu Pandemic'' ''Confirming 42 cases of swine flu in the U.S., the Obama administration said Monday it was responding aggressively as if the outbreak would spread into a full pandemic.'' Source: CBS News |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 24, 2009 |
''Credit-Card Shocks Anger More Borrowers'' "The Pew Charitable Trusts, in calling for a policy of Safe Credit Card Standards this week, said that 100% of cards allowed the issuer to get paid back in a manner which, according to the Federal Reserve, "is likely to cause substantial monetary damage to consumers," said Nick Bourke, a manager at the institution." Source: The Wall Street Journal |
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| Apr 24, 2009 |
''Obama gets tough on abuses by credit card industry'' "Obama said that while credit cards are an important source of liquidity for consumers and small businesses, 'The days of any time, any reason rate hikes and late fee traps have to end.'" Source: USA Today |
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| Apr 20, 2009 |
''Practices of Credit Card Companies Under Scrutiny'' "Executives of the nation's largest credit-card companies will meet with President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday to discuss growing concerns about questionable practices in the industry." Source: The Miami Herald |
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| Apr 12, 2009 |
''Taking a Page, and a Pen, From Makers of Medicines'' "Free pens — bearing the names of drugs like Viagra and Januvia rather than the letters NYC — litter doctors’ offices all across New York, part of an often-criticized strategy by drug company sales representatives known as detailers, who traditionally go from waiting room to waiting room giving gifts to entice doctors to prescribe their products." Source: The New York Times |
Conflicts of Interest |
| 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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| Mar 31, 2009 |
''The Moment for Credit Card Reform'' "We all know what an uphill battle reforming abusive credit card practices has been. As a twenty-five year veteran of that fight, I know it as well as anyone. But this morning, the Senate took a big step up that mountain." Source: Huffington Post |
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| Mar 31, 2009 |
''New Study Cites 'unfair and deceptive' Credit Card Practices'' "A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts details the extent of some of the “unfair and deceptive practices” by credit card companies." Source: The Washington Post |
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| Mar 25, 2009 |
''New program encourages low-income L.A. residents to open bank accounts'' "Nearly 300,000 Los Angeles households do not have a bank account, more than in any other U.S. city, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa acknowledged at a news briefing Tuesday." Source: Los Angeles Times |
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| Mar 20, 2009 |
Health and Human Services Policy The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were rightly considered landmark legislation when they were passed by Congress more than a century ago...Our nation’s capacity to protect consumers cannot be met by the structures we have in place. A decade ago, the National Academies of Science called for reform of the nation’s food safety system, and in a series of reports since then, the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, has endorsed that goal and made specific recommendations for improvement. Source: Pew Prospectus |
Food Safety |
| Feb 15, 2009 |
''Officials Driven to Take Closer Look at Food Safety'' The deadly salmonella outbreak traced to a Georgia peanut company is having an unexpected effect: It’s forcing lawmakers — finally, critics say — to improve food-safety regulations that in some cases haven’t been updated in a century. Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
Food Safety |
| Feb 11, 2009 |
"The Pew Health Group's Campaign for Food Safety released this ad in support of the DeLauro Food Safety Modernization Act (H.R. 875)." Source: Roll Call |
School Food |
| Jan 16, 2009 |
''House Introduces Nanotech Bill'' The House Science and Technology Committee introduced a bill Jan. 15 about the need to strengthen federal efforts to better comprehend the potential environmental, health and safety effects of nanotechnology. Source: Government Computer News |
Health Topics |
