http://www.consumercal.org/ http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=592 <div class="text blurb">CFC will be creating a one stop shop for the No on Prop 10 campaign. Come here to learn everything you need to know about this deceptive boondoggle.</div> http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=592 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=614 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=614 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=615 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=615 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=616 <div class="text blurb">Would change California law to allow pharmacists to deliver paid advertising for drugs.</div> http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=616 http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5141/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2284 <div class="text blurb">By turning pharmacist into drug marketing agents, AB 10 would abuse the trusted patient-pharmacist relationship and increase the cost and usage of prescription drugs.</div> http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5141/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2284 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=613 <div class="text blurb">The really tragic part of this story is there are no consequences. The same group of economists that led the economy into this catastrophe still has its hands on the wheel. </div> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=613 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=612 <div class="text blurb">An ambitious proposal crafted in the dwindling days of the legislative session would for the first time give state regulators broad authority to oversee chemicals in consumer products. </div> Mon, 25 Aug 2008 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=612 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=611 <div class="text blurb">Proposition 10 spends billions in tax giveaways to manipulate the marketplace to favor natural gas as a "clean" vehicle fuel to the disadvantage of cleaner alternative energy technologies.</div> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=611 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=610 <div class="text blurb">A coalition of consumer, immigrant and civil rights groups warned Tuesday that a Port of Long Beach loan program to help thousands of mostly low-income truck drivers replace old, polluting rigs with newer, cleaner-burning vehicles could plunge the truckers into debt. </div> Thu, 21 Aug 2008 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=610 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=604 <div class="text blurb">This predatory lending is detailed in the report authored by the Consumer Federation of California (CFC), League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).</div> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=604 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=608 <div class="text blurb">Cut-rate foreclosed homes being unloaded by banks wreaked havoc on the Bay Area's median price in July, sending it down nearly 30 percent to a level not seen in more than four years. </div> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=608 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=607 <div class="text blurb">The Consumer Federation of California (CFC) strongly urges Governor Schwarzenegger to sign AB 1333 (Hancock) - a bill that will protect tenants in foreclosed properties and help keep families in their homes.</div> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=607 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=609 <div class="text blurb">Consumer spending is starting to play a lesser role in our economy, as households -- even wealthy ones -- downsize their lifestyles. </div> http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=609 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=605 <div class="text blurb">An avalanche of lobbying buried two bills in the Assembly on Monday that sought to ban controversial chemicals from fast food containers, microwave popcorn bags and baby bottles.</div> Tue, 19 Aug 2008 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=605 http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=606 <div class="text blurb">CFC urges Governor to sign AB 1333 (Hancock) - a bill that will protect tenants in foreclosed properties and help keep families in their homes.</div> http://www.consumercal.org/article.php?id=606