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Massachusetts and the Stimulus: An Appraisal of Transportation Spending 6/29/2009

June 29th marks the 120-day deadline for states to commit at least 50% of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s (ARRA) $26.6 billion in transportation funds. It provides a vantage point to examine how states are using he money, with a particular focus on the $438 million apportioned to Massachusetts.

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Health Care & Prescription Drugs Archive

Health Care in Crisis:	1/28/2009
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	11/25/2008
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

Business Practices & Corporate Accountability Reports Archive

CVS: Takes a Licking and Keeps on Overcharging	5/07/2009
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

Tax & Budget Policy Reports Archive

Tax Shell Game: The Taxpayer Cost of Offshore Corporate Tax Havens	4/15/2009
Failing the Bailout: Lessons for Obama From Bush’s Failures on TARP	2/10/2009
Transparency.gov 2.0: Using The Internet For Budget Transparency To Increase Accountability, Efficiency And Taxpayer Confidence	12/03/2008
Forgiving Fraud and Failure	10/04/2007
MASSPIRGâ€™s 5 Point Plan for Fair Tax and Budget Policy	6/27/2007

Transportation Agenda Reports Archive

Massachusetts and the Stimulus: An Appraisal of Transportation Spending	6/29/2009
Economic Stimulus or Simply More Misguided Spending?	1/05/2009
Connecting the Commonwealth: Key Public Transportation Projects and Their Benefits for Massachusetts	10/13/2008
Squandering the Stimulus: An Analysis of Household Gas Spending, Economic Stimulus Checks, and the Need for Better Transportation Options	6/25/2008
A Better Way to Go	3/20/2008

Money & Politics Reports Archive

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

2/06/2007

Voting & Democracy Reports Archive

Vanishing Voters: Why Registered Voters Drop Off the Rolls	9/24/2008
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

Course Correction: How Digital Textbooks are Off Track and How to Set Them Straight	8/01/2008
Exposing the Textbook Industry: How Publishersâ€™ 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

Total Recall: The Need For CPSC Reform Now	7/23/2008
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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