PIRG in the News

Media Hit | Higher Ed

Student Loan Defaults Skyrocket, Double in Past 6 Years

Rich Williams, US PIRG's higher education advocate, takes on the student loan industry and advocates that Congress sustain--if not increase--financial aid

Media Hit | Waste

MASSPIRG’s Blitz Campaign Gains Support for Recycling Bill

The Daily Collegian at UMass Amherst profiles MASSPIRG's on-campus effort to build support for the Updated Bottle Bill

Media Hit | Consumer Protection

Campaign to end unhealthy food subsidies

MASSPIRG Student Samantha Demanbey urges Congress to cut subsidies for unhealthy foods in a letter to the editor of The Point at Fitchburg State

Media Hit | Consumer Protection

The Twinkie Tax

MASSPIRG student Jacqueline DiPersio highlights how much taxpayer money goes to make junk food ingredients in her Letter to the Editor in the UMass Lowell Connector

Media Hit | Consumer Protection

A trillion we can agree on

Dierdre Cummings, the tax and budget program and legislative director for MASSPIRG, joins forces with Andrew Moylan of the National Taxpayers Union, to propose common-sense solutions to cut the decifit

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