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Time For A Change

For too long, bankers themselves have written the rules on Wall Street.

Because of their reckless and greedy behavior, Main Street lost millions of jobs, taxpayers spent billions bailing out banks and retirees lost trillions of carefully saved dollars.

This year, that has to change.

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Block Corporate Money from Campaigns

A January 21 Supreme Court decision puts our democracy at risk.

By ruling that corporations are "persons" and by saying that limiting their money is the same as limiting "free speech," the court is in essence giving corporations the right to pour millions into campaign attack ads.

We must stop them.

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Victory for Credit Card Holders

Over the last ten years, credit card companies seeking higher and higher profits have invented more and more unfair practices.

U.S. PIRG and the PIRGs across the country helped pass the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009, which goes a long way toward reining in credit company abuses.

On Feb. 22, the new law goes into effect. Is it enough?

Learn more here.

Listen to the Feb. 18 news conference here.

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