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Consumer Groups Oppose Bill to Remove Prices From Groceries

 

It soon may be harder for Massachusetts shoppers to find out the price of groceries if a bill just entering the final stage of passage in the House becomes law.

“Everywhere we turn, we are bombarded with ever more sophisticated pricing strategies and gimmicks by companies trying to sell us things.  These days shoppers need more and clearer price information, not less about the products we buy,” said Deirdre Cummings, MASSPIRG legislative director.  “This is a pro-big-business, anti-consumer bill.”

News Release | MASSPIRG | Consumer Protection

Doubling Student Debt Rates to Cost Massachusetts Students $160 Million

Higher education advocates released new data today showing that an anticipated increase in the student loan interest rate would cost Massachusetts students $160 million per year. The increase would affect federally subsidized Stafford loans, which are provided to almost 7.5 million low and moderate income students nationwide each year. If Congress does nothing, then beginning on July 1st, the interest rate will double from 3.4% to 6.8% on new student loans.

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Boston Globe - Profits up at Mass. health insurers

Capitalizing on fewer people seeking medical care and submitting claims, the state’s four biggest commercial health insurers posted sharply higher earnings for 2011 while their executives collected more pay, according to reports released yesterday.

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WCVB TV - You Could End Up Paying for Power Outages

If the state’s big power companies have their way, Bay State homeowners and businesses will be slammed with a $160 million record repair bill that comes with big questions about how the region’s utilities responded to massive power outages in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene and a late October snowstorm.

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NECIR - Power Outages: Who Pays the Bill?

If the state’s big power companies have their way, Bay State homeowners and businesses will be slammed with a $160 million record repair bill that comes with big questions about how the region’s utilities responded to massive power outages in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene and a late October snowstorm.

News Release | MASSPIRG | Consumer Protection, Solid Waste

Updated Bottle Bill Campaign Announces Business Support

In a move designed to counter the big business lobbyists who oppose the bill, the Campaign for an Updated Bottle Bill today launched “Businesses for the Updated Bottle Bill,” an effort which has already garnered the endorsement of 350 small businesses around the state.

News Release | MASSPIRG | Consumer Protection, Financial Reform

President Gives Consumer Watchdog the Teeth it Needs

MASSPIRG Applauds Bold and Important Recess Appointment of Richard Cordray to Head New Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

News Release | MASSPIRG | Consumer Protection, Financial Reform

MASSPIRG urges Senator Brown to vote for Wall Street Reform

We are here today to urge Congress to pass the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act approved last Friday in Conference Committee.

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