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News Release | MASSPIRG | Consumer Protection

CRI Releases New Report, “Returning to Work"

According to a new study by the Container Recycling Institute, expansion of Massachusetts’ bottle bill could create as many as 500 jobs in the state.

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Report | Container Recycling Institute (CRI) | Consumer Protection, Solid Waste

Returning to Work

This study provides an intensely detailed, scenario-specific assessment of the jobs to be gained from increased recycling of what is arguably the most common, most prolific and most sought-after of all household recyclables—beverage containers.

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News Release | MASSPIRG | Budget, Tax

Report Card Grades States on Economic Development Subsidies

In new report Money for Something, a 51-state “report card” released today by Good Jobs First, Massachusetts ranked 43 out 51  in performance and job quality standards in economic development subsidies.   

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Report | Good Jobs First | Budget, Tax

Money for Something

States are spending billions of dollars per year on corporate tax credits, cash grants and other economic development subsidies that often require little if any job creation and lack wage and benefit standards covering workers at subsidized companies. These are the key findings of Money for Something: Job Creation and Job Quality Standards in State Economic Development Subsidy Programs, a 51-state “report card” study published today by Good Jobs First, a non-profit, non-partisan research center based in Washington, DC

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News Release | MASSPIRG | Budget, Tax

Report Shows Corporations Paying Few State Taxes

A comprehensive new study, from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, profiles the 265 consistently profitable Fortune 500 corporations finding that 68 companies paid no state corporate income tax in at least one of the last three years and 20 of these corporations averaged a tax rate of zero or less during the 2008-2010 period.

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News Release | MASSPIRG | Consumer Protection

New Survey Shows Banks Still Hiding Fees from Consumers

A survey of more than 350 bank branches released today by the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG), revealed that fewer than half of branches obeyed their legal duty to fully disclose fees to prospective customers, while one in four provided no fee information at all.

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News Release | MASSPIRG | Budget, Tax

Groups call for Transparency and Accountability of Corporate Tax Breaks

Local, state and national groups call for greater accountability and transparency of corporate tax breaks at a State House hearing.

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News Release | MASSPIRG | Safe Energy

Nuclear Power: Not Worth the Risk

A new report released today by the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG) documents a history of safety problems at nuclear reactors in the United States. These incidents – like the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan – illustrate that nuclear power carries with it risks that are simply not worth taking.

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News Release | MASSPIRG | Health Care

A Year After the ACA, State Legislature Holds the Key to Lower Costs

Boston, MA - Statement of Deirdre Cummings, Legislative Director for MASSPIRG on the one-year anniversary of the final passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the new federal health care law, and the impact and potential it holds for Massachusetts consumers and small businesses.

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News Release | MASSPIRG | Budget, Tax

Massachusetts Earns a “B+” in Annual Report on Transparency of Government Spending

Massachusetts gets a “B+” when it comes to openness about government spending according to new report, Following the Money 2011: How the States Rank on Providing Online Access to Government Spending Data.

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Tools & Resources

  • END THE WASTE
    This summer businesses will throw away enough recyclable cardboard to fill Fenway Park. Help us end the waste.
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  • END THE GRIDLOCK
    Massachusetts has too much traffic and too much pollution. It's time to invest in transportation across the state.
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  • Trouble in Toyland
    For the 27th year, MASSPIRG arms consumers with safety guidelines and a list of harmful toys hitting store shelves this holiday season.
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  • Our Unsafe Nuclear Power Plants
    Our report, “Unacceptable Risk,” examines two decades worth of “close calls,” leaks and other problems at our country’s 104 nuclear reactors.
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