Tax Shell Game: How Much Did Offshore Tax Havens Cost You in 2010?
Release date: Monday, April 18, 2011 CT-Tax_Shell_Game_2011.pdf Tax havens are countries with minimal or no taxes, to which U.S.-based multinational firms or individuals transfer their earnings to...
View ArticleBuilding a Better Health Care Marketplace
Release date: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Building-a-Better-Health-Care-Marketplace-vWeb.pdf Consumers across the state know that the health insurance marketplace is broken. Insurers don’t compete for...
View ArticleToward Common Ground
Released by: U.S. Public Interest Research Group and National Taxpayers Union Release date: Thursday, September 15, 2011 USPIRG_Toward_Common_Ground.pdf To break through the ideological divide that...
View ArticleApples to Twinkies
Release date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Apples-to-Twinkies-web-vUS.pdf America is facing an obesity epidemic – one that’s hitting children especially hard. Childhood obesity rates have tripled...
View ArticleMaking the Grade
Released by: ConnPIRG Education Fund Release date: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Making-the-Grade.pdf When it comes to health care, there are few magic-bullet solutions for the many problems consumers...
View ArticleTrouble in Toyland
Release date: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 USPIRG_Trouble_In_Toyland.pdf The 2011 Trouble in Toyland report is our 26th annual survey of toy safety. In this report, we provide safety guidelines for...
View ArticleRepresentation Without Taxation
Released by: ConnPIRG and Citizens for Tax Justice Release date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Thirty Fortune 500 Companies Paid More to Lobby Congress than they Did in Federal Income Taxes CTP RepTax...
View ArticleAuctioning Democracy
Released by: ConnPIRG Education Fund Release date: Monday, February 6, 2012 New Report Released: Auctioning Democracy AuctioningDemocracy-CTP.pdf A new report by ConnPIRG Education Fund and Demos...
View ArticleFollowing the Money
Released by: ConnPIRG Education Fund Release date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Following the Money.pdf The ability to see how government uses the public purse is fundamental to democracy. Transparency...
View ArticleApples to Twinkies 2012
Released by: ConnPIRG Education Fund Release date: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 Ag Subsidies Pay for 21 Twinkies per Taxpayer, But Only Half of an Apple Apiece Apples to Twinkies vCT.pdf Executive Summary...
View ArticleBig Banks Bigger Fees
Released by: ConnPIRG Education Fund Release date: Thursday, November 15, 2012ConnecticutBanks12.pdfSince Congress largely deregulated consumer deposit (checking and savings) accounts beginning in the...
View ArticleTrouble in Toyland
Released by: ConnPIRG Education Fund Release date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012Survey Finds Dangerous Toys on Store ShelvesCTP Toyland2012.pdf The 2012 Trouble in Toyland report is the 27th annual U.S....
View ArticleWhat America Could Do with $150 Billion Lost to Offshore Tax Havens
Released by: ConnPIRG Release date: Thursday, December 6, 2012First Step to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff: Close Offshore Tax LoopholesTax Havens ReportMany corporations and wealthy individuals use offshore...
View ArticleThe Hidden Cost of Offshore Tax Havens
Released by: ConnPIRG Education Fund Release date: Tuesday, February 5, 2013Offshore Tax Dodging Blows a $904 Million Hole in Connecticut Budget:WEB The Hidden Cost of Offshore Tax Havens...
View ArticleFollowing the Money 2013
Released by: ConnPIRG Education Fund Release date: Wednesday, March 27, 2013Connecticut Receives a “C+” in Annual Report on Transparency of Government...
View ArticlePicking Up the Tab 2013
Released by: ConnPIRG Release date: Thursday, April 4, 2013Offshore Tax Havens Cost Average Connecticut Taxpayer $1,965 a Year, Connecticut Small Business $5,989CTP PickUpTab Mar13.pdf Executive...
View ArticleA New Direction
The Driving Boom—a six decade-long period of steady increases in per-capita driving in the United States—is over.
View ArticlePrescription for Danger
Prescriptions are regularly compounded at pharmacies, after a doctor writes a prescription for a compounded drug. However, compounding pharmacies are increasingly behaving like pharmaceutical companies...
View ArticleIssue Brief: Student Loan Debt in Connecticut
Without a new plan from Congress, on July 1 the interest rate on subsidized Stafford student loans will double, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. In Connecticut, 73,051 federal student loan borrowers...
View ArticleThe Zero Waste Solution
Connecticut burns more of its waste than any other state in the country, generating more than half a million tons of toxic ash every year. Connecticut’s recycling rate, currently at 24 percent, has...
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