Talk:Public Interest Research Group/Archives/2020/November

Paid editor seeks assistance from volunteers with section revisions
Greetings volunteers! My name is Dan Cook, or User:DanDavidCook. I am being paid to update and improve this article. With help from you, the article is now much improved from a reader standpoint. Thank you for your assistance to date! My current request is twofold: to rename the ==Policy positions== section so that it more closely follows the subheads used by other similar organizations; and to add new information to the section so that readers will have a better understanding of PIRG’s areas of focus, and how its mission differs from other nonprofits. I thank you in advance for considering this request and for any feedback you may offer. If this revision or some version of it meets with volunteer approval, I have one more additional request for addition of new information to this section. DanDavidCook (talk) 18:57, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

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 * ==Policy positions==
 * ==Policy positions==

U.S. PIRG lobbied for the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent U.S. government agency which was founded as a result of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in the wake of the late-2000s recession and the financial crisis.

The PIRGs have worked to make same-sex marriage legal, to increase the minimum wage, to enact increased environmental regulations, to oppose Voter ID laws in the United States, build high speed rail in California, defend solar net metering in California, increase food labeling in California, expand open educational resources on campus, expand campus food pantries, and ban pesticides linked to colony collapse.|


 * ==Programs and campaigns==

Consumer protection
U.S. PIRG’s consumer protection work includes financial and product safety reforms. U.S. PIRG lobbied for the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent U.S. government agency which was founded as a result of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in the wake of the late-2000s recession and the financial crisis of 2007. U.S. PIRG helped win passage of the Credit CARD Act of 2009, protecting consumers from certain predatory practices by credit card companies. Product safety work includes warning consumers about potentially unsafe products in the marketplace, such as recalled baby products and food.

Public health
U.S. PIRG has called on major restaurant chains including McDonald’s and KFC to end the use of meat raised with antibiotics, a practice that contributes to antibiotic-resistant bacteria in people. During the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. PIRG organized medical experts to speak about the U.S.’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The group of 150 sent a letter to political leaders urging them to shut down the country and start over with strategies to contain the surging coronavirus pandemic.
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 * ✅ Dr. Van Nostrand (talk) 21:18, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for implementing this, Dr. VN! DanDavidCook (talk) 21:33, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

COI requests help with additions to Programs and campaigns section
Greetings volunteers! My name is Dan Cook, or User:DanDavidCook. I am being paid to update and improve this article. Thanks in advance for considering this request. I would like to request that two short subsections be added to the “Programs and campaigns” section. The reason for adding this new information to the section is to give readers a better understanding of PIRG’s areas of focus, which differ from those of other nonprofits. DanDavidCook (talk) 21:11, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

The following would be added to the newly retitled section, “Programs and campaigns” just below the “Public Health” subsection.

{| class="wikitable" ! Current text ! Replace with
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 * ==Programs and campaigns==
 * ==Programs and campaigns==

Consumer protection
U.S. PIRG’s consumer protection work includes financial and product safety reforms. U.S. PIRG lobbied for the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent U.S. government agency which was founded as a result of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in the wake of the late-2000s recession and the financial crisis of 2007. U.S. PIRG helped win passage of the Credit CARD Act of 2009, protecting consumers from certain predatory practices by credit card companies. Product safety work includes warning consumers about potentially unsafe products in the marketplace, such as recalled baby products and food.

Public health
U.S. PIRG has called on major restaurant chains including McDonald’s and KFC to end the use of meat raised with antibiotics, a practice that contributes to antibiotic-resistant bacteria in people. During the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. PIRG organized medical experts to speak about the U.S.’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The group of 150 sent a letter to political leaders urging them to shut down the country and start over with strategies to contain the surging coronavirus pandemic.
 * ==Programs and campaigns==

Consumer protection
U.S. PIRG’s consumer protection work includes financial and product safety reforms. U.S. PIRG lobbied for the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent U.S. government agency which was founded as a result of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in the wake of the late-2000s recession and the financial crisis of 2007. U.S. PIRG helped win passage of the Credit CARD Act of 2009, protecting consumers from certain predatory practices by credit card companies. Product safety work includes warning consumers about potentially unsafe products in the marketplace, such as recalled baby products and food.

Public health
U.S. PIRG has called on major restaurant chains including McDonald’s and KFC to end the use of meat raised with antibiotics, a practice that contributes to antibiotic-resistant bacteria in people. During the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. PIRG organized medical experts to speak about the U.S.’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The group of 150 sent a letter to political leaders urging them to shut down the country and start over with strategies to contain the surging coronavirus pandemic.

Transportation
U.S. PIRG and individual state PIRGs have taken positions against highway expansion or new construction projects as wastefully expensive and unneeded, helping to stop projects such as the Illiana Expressway in Illinois.

Higher education
U.S. PIRG actively lobbied for passage of the College Cost Reduction and Access Act in 2007, which reduced interest rates on student loans and increased funding for Pell Grants. It supported the expansion of open educational resources on campus and of campus food pantries.
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 * ✅ Dr. Van Nostrand (talk) 03:55, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

COI article cleanup request
Greetings volunteers! My name is Dan Cook, or User:DanDavidCook. I am being paid to update and improve this article. Thanks in advance for considering this request, which is intended to clean up one subsection of the Programs and campaigns section of the article. The reason for the request is that the reference used to support the campus food pantries text does not currently support it. My request is to delete the citation that does not support it, and replace it with two citations that do support the text. (I realize this should have been included in my previous edit request and I apologize for making this additional request.) DanDavidCook (talk) 17:49, 20 November 2020 (UTC)


 * ✅ Dr. Van Nostrand (talk) 05:01, 22 November 2020 (UTC)