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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. Learn more.

 

PIRG Highlights

From The Newsroom

NJPIRG Member Joins Nancy Pelosi And Others To Speak On Wall Street Reform

Alene Kristal, an attorney and a member of New Jersey PIRG, was invited to speak at a June 30 news conference at the Capitol to explain how the crisis affected her family.

Responding to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, on June 30, the House approved the conference report on the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, HR 4173. The bill reins in Wall Street and protects consumers, investors, and taxpayers from further financial meltdowns.

History is Made

At noon, March 23rd, 2010, President Barack Obama brought a hundred-year struggle for affordable health care to a close  when he signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. 

The Senate must still take up a final set of fixes to this legislation this week, and then the state and federal government have their work cut out for them.

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