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Safe Food, Healthy Kids

Did you know, most fast food chains have safety standards 10 times stronger for beef than the USDA has set for school lunches?

For years, the meat industry and other food interests have lobbied against stronger food safety standards. We’re fighting back, because if it's not good enough for fast food, it's not good enough for school food.

 

Toy Safety At Your Fingertips

Toys should bring kids joy, but sometimes they bring injury, serious harm, and even death.

This holiday season, when NCPIRG unveils its 24th annual Trouble in Toyland report, it will also launch a new interactive smart phone website to help shoppers avoid common hazards, as well as report potential dangers they find on toy store shelves, right from their mobile phones or home computers.

Read the Report

U.S. Senate Passes Historic Wall Street Reform

On May 20th, the U.S. Senate passed the Restoring American Financial Stability Act, which includes a strong, independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency, opens up the shadow markets where derivatives are traded, and prevents banks from becoming "too big to fail."

NCPIRG backed the legislation and successfully fought back several attempts to weaken it on the Senate floor. The bill now moves to a conference committee.

To see the senator scorecard, which grades Senators on how often they voted in the public interest, click here.

See what the reform will mean for you.

 

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