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Stop Subsidizing Obesity

Nearly one in three kids in Arizona is overweight or obese, yet taxpayers spend billions of dollars a year subsidizing junk food.

We could stop underwriting the epidemic of childhood obesity—and save $28 billion over the next 10 years—if Congress adopts a proposal to cut the subsidies that, among other things, help make corn syrup and trans fats cheaper than real food.



Learn more about our Stop Subsidizing Obesity campaign.

 

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Toy Safety At Your Fingertips

Toys should bring kids joy, but sometimes they bring injury, serious harm, and even death.

This holiday season, when Arizona PIRG unveiled its 25th annual Trouble in Toyland report, it also launched a new interactive smart phone website (www.toysafety.mobi)to help shoppers avoid common hazards, as well as report potential dangers they find on toy store shelves, right from their mobile phones or home computers.

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Following The Money 2011

Arizona PIRG graded all 50 states on how well they provide online access to information about government spending.

States were given "A" to "F" grades based on characteristics of their online transparency systems that provide information on contracts, subsidies and spending at quasi-public agencies.

Read the report Following the Money 2011 and click here for a web tool displaying the report's findings.
 

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