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Still waiting for state’s master plan to reduce solid waste

While it’s cause for great celebration that Massachusetts is planning to reduce waste, it’s also a reminder that the Department of Environmental Protection has yet to produce the solid waste master plan — the comprehensive, 10-year waste plan required by law. We can’t help feeling like we’re at the celebration, blindfolded, with a tail in our hands but no donkey on the wall.

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Media Hit | Higher Ed

MASSPIRG on Student Loans

MASSPIRG is out with a release today stating that a potential increase in interest rates for federal student loans could cost Massachusetts students $160 million a year. According to MASSPIRG, the average student who takes out student loans graduates with over $25,000 in debt on those loans. On average, doubling the interest rate would add about $1,000 for every year a student takes out a loan, MASSPIRG stated.

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Media Hit | Health Care

GoLocal Worcester - Repeal of the Rx Gift Ban to Cost Mass. $750 Million

What’s at risk? According to Deirdre Cummings, Legislative Director with MASSPIRG, consumers and small businesses will suffer due to big pharma’s marketing strategy.

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Media Hit | Tax

Liberty Mutual critics decry executive’s pay package

The revelation that Liberty Mutual paid chairman Edmund F. “Ted’’ Kelly about $200 million during the past four years has angered some customers and watchdog groups. MASSPIRG's Deirdre Cummings provides her insight.

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Media Hit | Budget, Tax

Taunton Daily Gazette - The real cost of off- shore tax havens

Many Americans would be shocked to hear about an invisible tax burden put on them this year by some of the largest, most profitable corporations that use offshore tax havens to avoid paying their full tax bill. This tax dodging costs taxpayers an estimated $100 billion every single year.