Following the Money 2012
Released by: OSPIRG Foundation Release date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Oregon Receives a B+ in Annual Report on Transparency of Government Spending Following the Money vOR.pdf The ability to see how...
View ArticleComments on PacificSource's Small Business Rate Hike Proposal
Released by: OSPIRG Foundation Release date: Monday, March 26, 2012 Health Insurance Rates to Rise 8-14% for Many Oregon Small Businesses Comment on PacificSource Small Business Rate Filing effective...
View ArticleTransportation and the New Generation
Released by: OSPIRG Foundation Release date: Friday, April 6, 2012 Transportation & the New Generation.pdf From World War II until just a few years ago, the number of miles driven annually on...
View ArticlePicking Up the Tab
Released by: OSPIRG Release date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Picking up the Tab April 2012 OSPIRG.pdf Some U.S.-based multinational firms or individuals avoid paying U.S. taxes by transferring their...
View ArticleComments on Health Net's Proposal to Increase Small Business Health Insurance...
Released by: OSPIRG Foundation Release date: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 Health Net Rate Hike Not Justified OSPIRG Foundation comments on Health Net rate filing #HNOR-128218998.pdf Executive Summary Over...
View ArticleAt Stake: What's on the Line for Health Care Consumers in the Pending Supreme...
Released by: OSPIRG Foundation Release date: Monday, June 18, 2012 DOWNLOAD REPORT (PDF) The outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have far reaching impacts...
View ArticleRaising the Bar: Strategies to contain cost and improve quality in Oregon’s...
Released by: OSPIRG Foundation Release date: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 DOWNLOAD REPORT (PDF) A new OSPIRG Foundation report explores strategies that the Oregon health insurance exchange can implement to...
View ArticleComments on Regence BlueCross BlueShield's Proposal to Increase Individual...
Released by: OSPIRG Foundation Release date: Tuesday, August 7, 2012 Regence Rate Hike Not Justified DOWNLOAD REPORT (PDF) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY More than 52,000 Oregonians with individual health...
View ArticleComments on Providence Health Plans Proposal to Increase Individual Health...
Released by: OSPIRG Foundation Release date: Wednesday, August 8, 2012 DOWNLOAD REPORT (PDF) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY More than 12,000 Oregonians with individual health insurance plans will see rate hikes of...
View ArticleApples to Twinkies 2012
Released by: OSPIRG Foundation Release date: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 Apples to Twinkies.OSPIRG Foundation.pdf At a time when America is facing an obesity epidemic, crushing debt and a weak economy,...
View ArticleComments on PacificSource Health Plans Proposal to Increase Small Group...
Released by: OSPIRG Foundation Release date: Friday, September 28, 2012 OSPIRG Foundation Comments on PacificSource Rate Filing - Small Group - PCSR-128627276.pdf Executive Summary PacificSource...
View ArticleMillion Dollar Megaphones---Post Election Update
Released by: OSPIRG Foundation Release date: Monday, November 12, 2012post election megaphones final.pdfA new analysis of data through Election Day from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and other...
View ArticleBig Banks, Bigger Fees 2012
Released by: OSPIRG Release date: Thursday, November 15, 2012Big Banks, Bigger Fees.pdfSince Congress largely deregulated consumer deposit (checking and savings) accounts beginning in the early 1980s,...
View ArticleTrouble in Toyland
Released by: OSPIRG Release date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012ORP Toyland2012.pdfExecutive SummaryThe 2012 Trouble in Toyland report is the 27th annual OSPIRG survey of toy safety. In this report,...
View ArticleWhat America Could Do with $150 Billion Lost to Offshore Tax Havens
Released by: OSPIRG Release date: Thursday, December 6, 2012USPTaxHavens Cost $150 billion.pdfMany corporations and wealthy individuals use offshore tax havens—countries with minimal or no taxes—to...
View ArticleBillion-Dollar Democracy
Released by: OSPIRG Foundation Release date: Thursday, January 17, 2013ORP_BillionDollarDemocracy (2).pdfExecutive SummaryThe first presidential election since Citizens United lived up to its hype,...
View ArticleOutside Spending, Outsized Influence
Released by: OSPIRG Foundation Release date: Friday, January 18, 2013outsize_spending_OREGON.pdf The 2012 elections were by far the most expensive in history thanks primarily to the tidal wave of...
View ArticleElections Confidential
Released by: USPIRG Education Fund Release date: Monday, January 21, 2013EXECUTIVE SUMMARY“Elections Confidential” describes how secret donors poured hundreds of millions into the 2012 election...
View ArticleTransparency in City Spending
Released by: OSPIRG Foundation Release date: Wednesday, January 23, 2013OSPIRG_Transparency in City Spending.pdfExecutive SummaryThe ability to see how government uses the public purse is fundamental...
View ArticleThe Hidden Cost of Offshore Tax Havens
Released by: OSPIRG Foundation Release date: Tuesday, February 5, 2013Offshore Tax Dodging Blows a $506 million Hole in Oregon BudgetThe Hidden Cost of Offshore Tax Havens OR.pdfExecutive SummaryWhen...
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