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Taxpayers subsidize junk food ingredients to the tune of $16.9 billion but only subsidize apples by $262 million. With this money, each taxpayer could purchase 19 Twinkies and a quarter of an apple. We need to end the subsidies that skew the marketplace toward junk food.
The 2011 Trouble in Toyland report is our 26th annual survey of toy safety. In this report, we provide safety guidelines for consumers when purchasing toys for young children and provide examples of toys currently on store shelves that may pose potential safety hazards. Get
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Today Facebook settled a privacy complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC says Facebook "deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public." Read the FTC's full statement here.
Just wrapped up our push to make sure we raise students' voices around the Colorado Health Benefit Exchange.
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Jobs for Graduating Seniors
If you are ready to dig in and start solving the problems that confront our country, consider a job with U.S. PIRG.
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Let's Make Health Care Work
We're working to make health care work in Colorado by supporting a pro-consumer health insurance exchange to bring competition to the health insurance marketplace, increasing affordability, access and choice for hundreds of thousands of families and small businesses.
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Intern with CoPIRG
As a CoPIRG Student Chapters intern you'll learn skills and get valuable experience working on a campaign. You’ll learn how to build teams of volunteers, organize events on campus, and work with the media.
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A crash course in effective citizenship.
Get the basic tools necessary to run strong campaigns and service projects and win reforms both on and off campus for students and the public interest.
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Make Textbooks More Affordable
We are educating professors about ways they can help reduce the cost of textbooks, like turning their book orders in on time and adopting open textbooks.
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CoPIRG Energy Service Corps
A joint project with AmeriCorps to educate and engage communities around energy efficiency. We educate the campus and community about the simple things we can do to save energy like switching out our old light bulbs to more energy efficient CFLs.
Internships

Work on important issues, learn valuable skills, get hands-on experience, and make a difference.