"MCCUTCHEON" COULD ADD OVER $1 BILLION IN CONTRIBUTIONS TO NEXT FOUR ELECTIONS
We project that striking the aggregate contribution limit would bring more than $1 billion in additional campaign contributions from elite donors through the 2020 election cycle.
View ArticleFollowing the Money 2014
How the 50 States Rate in Providing Online Access to Government Spending Data.
View ArticleThe Unfriendly Skies
An analysis of Five Years of Airline Passenger Complaints to the Department of Transportation.
View ArticlePicking up the Tab 2014: Average Citizens and Small Businesses Pay the Price...
As hardworking Americans file their taxes today, check out this report to see how ordinary taxpayers pick up the tab for the loopholes in our tax laws.
View ArticleOffshore Shell Games
Tax loopholes encouraged more than 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies – including some companies headquartered in Massachusetts – to maintain subsidiaries in offshore tax havens. Collectively, the...
View ArticleEnding the Abuse of Antibiotics in Livestock Production
The overuse and misuse of antibiotics threathen public health.
View ArticleWeak Medicine
As outlined in our new report, Weak Medicine: Why the FDA's New Guidelines Are Inadequate To Curb Antibiotic Resistance and Protect Public Health. Guidelines issued by the FDA last year lack the...
View ArticleMillennials in Motion
Millennials are less car-focused than older Americans and previous generations of young people, and their transportation behaviors continue to change in ways that reduce driving. Now is the time for...
View ArticleBig Money Dominates in Congressional Primaries
Our analysis of fund-raising data from 2014’s congressional primaries examines the way these dynamics are playing out state by state across the country. While some states show markedly more inequity...
View ArticlePrescription For Change
Our September 2014 survey of physicians paints a grim picture of the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant infections. The overwhelming majority of surveyed doctors reported that one or more of their...
View ArticleThe Dominance of Big Money in the 2014 Congressional Elections
In 2014, large donors accounted for the vast majority of all individual federal election contributions this cycle, just as they have in previous elections. Seven of every 10 individual contribution...
View ArticleTrouble in Toyland 2014
Among the toys surveyed this year, we found numerous choking hazards and five toys with concentrations of toxics exceeding federal standards. In addition to reporting on potentially hazardous products...
View ArticleThe Next MASSDOT
Massachusetts is at a pivotal moment with regard to transporation. In recent year, the Commonwealth has taken the first steps toward reversing the transportation system's long slide into debt and...
View ArticleThe Money Chase
Five years after the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. FEC decision, what are the roles of large donors and average voters in selecting and supporting candidates for Congress? This report...
View ArticleThe Innovative Transportation Index
This report reviews the availability of 11 technology-enabled transportation services – including online ridesourcing, carsharing, ridesharing, taxi hailing, static and real-time transit information,...
View ArticleKeeping On Track
Keeping on Track provides you with updated information about the financial state of the Commonwealth's transportation system, completed statutory requirements, missed deadlines, and improvements made...
View ArticleMASSPIRG's 2015-2016 Legislative Agenda
Each legislative session, we choose several bills that represent public interest reforms and we work with the chief sponsors and cosponsors to promote them. These are selected state and federal...
View ArticleFollowing the Money 2015: How the 50 States Rate in Providing Online Access...
Every year, state governments spend hundreds of billions of dollars through contracts for goods and services, subsidies to encourage economic development, and other expenditures. Accountability and...
View ArticlePicking Up the Tab 2015
Every year, corporations and wealthy individuals use complicated gimmicks to shift U.S. earnings to subsidiaries in offshore tax havens – countries with minimal or no taxes – in order to reduce their...
View ArticleWho Pays For Roads?
Many Americans believe that drivers pay the full cost of the roads they use through gas taxes and other user fees. That has never been true, and it is less true now than at any other point in modern...
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