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The Campus Credit Card Trap 3/27/2008

Credit card lending is enormously profitable. According to annual Federal Reserve Board of Governors’ (FRB) Reports to Congress, it is the most profitable form of banking. But the credit card industry is saturated.

Health Care & Prescription Drugs Archive

Paying the Price	7/11/2006
Turning Medicine Into Snake Oil: How Pharmaceutical Marketers Put Patients At Risk	3/05/2006
Paying the Price: The High Cost of Prescription Drugs for Uninsured Americans	10/21/2004

Insurance Reform Reports Archive

‘How You Drive’ Takes a Backseat to Who You Are	2/28/2008
The Massachusetts Automobile Insurance Study Group	3/15/2007
The Limitations of a Competitive Auto Insurance Market: How to Reduce Rates and Increase Insurer Profitability Simultaneously	11/23/2004

Product & Food Safety Reports Archive

Trouble in Toyland: 21st Annual Toy Safety Survey	11/21/2006
The Food Safety Net: Ensuring Safe Food from Production to Consumption, April 2006	4/01/2006
Trouble in Toyland: The 20th Annual Survey of Toy Safety	11/22/2005
The Right Start: The Need to Eliminate Toxic Chemicals from Baby Products	11/10/2005
Trouble in Toyland: The 19th Annual Survey of Toy Safety	11/23/2004

Business Practices & Corporate Accountability Reports Archive

The Campus Credit Card Trap	3/27/2008
Consumers Guide to Credit Cards	9/11/2007
Locked In a Cell: How Cell Phone Early Termination Fees Hurt Consumers	8/11/2005
The Key to Safeguard Your Credit: A Consumer Survey and Report on Identity Theft and the Security Freeze	7/19/2005
Lagging Behind: How Massachusetts Has Fallen Behind Other States in Protecting its Residents from Identity Theft	7/17/2005

Tax & Budget Policy Reports Archive

Forgiving Fraud and Failure	10/04/2007
MASSPIRG’s 5 Point Plan for Fair Tax and Budget Policy	6/27/2007
Major League Steal: The Economic Folly of Public Subsidies for a New Red Sox Stadium	3/01/2000

Transportation Agenda Reports Archive

A Better Way to Go	3/20/2008
Derailed By Debt:	10/16/2007
Give a Hoot: Endangered Night Owl Service Indicates Threatened Regional Transportation System	3/10/2005
Hidden Costs: The Need For Transfers In The MBTA System	11/01/2003

Money & Politics Reports Archive

Honest Enforcement: What Congress Can Learn From Independent State Ethics Commissions

2/06/2007

Voting & Democracy Reports Archive

2005-2006 Legislative Report	12/12/2006
2006 Congressional Scorecard	5/16/2006

Media Reform & Internet Freedom Reports Archive

Mixed Signals: How TV Retailers Mislead Consumers On The Digital Television (DTV) Transition	2/13/2008
The Failure Of Cable Deregulation: A Blueprint For Creating A Competitive, Pro-Consumer Cable Television Marketplace	8/12/2003

Higher Education Project Reports Archive

Exposing the Textbook Industry: How Publishers’ Pricing Tactics Drive Up the Cost of College Textbooks	2/01/2007
Student Debt and Consumer Costs	8/02/2006
Paying Back, Not Giving Back: Student Debt's Negative Impact On Public Service Career Opportunities	4/05/2006
Easy Money: How Congress Could Increase Federal Student Aid Funding at No Additional Cost to Taxpayers	5/05/2005

Healthy Communities Reports Archive

Trouble in Toyland: The 22nd Annual Survey of Toy Safety	11/20/2007
Toxic Pollution And Health: An Analysis of Toxic Chemicals Released in Communities across the United States	3/22/2007
Where There's Smoking, There's Fire	11/01/2001

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