Topic: Consumers Union Of U.S. Inc.

Private Label Stigma Lifted?

The industry knows one of the best ways to cut corners in a grocery store is by purchasing in-store brands. According to a price study report by Consumer Reports, consumers are still reluctant to buy private label brands, even though it saves ...
EST press conference today include: U.S. Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA), Chair, Energy and Commerce Committee U.S. Representative Bruce L. Braley (D-IA) Vice Chair, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations U.S. Representative Bart Stupak (D-MI) Ami Gadhia, Policy Counsel, Consumers Union Clarence Ditlow, Executive ...
The House has passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, by a vote of 219-212. Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday afternoon won a narrow test vote to advance the American Clean Energy and Security Act to a ...

Consumer Reports Morning Update

Good Monday morning, here are the top stories our editors are keeping an eye on today. (Wall Street Journal) American investors are ditching foreign ventures and bringing their dollars home, entrusting them to the supposed bedrock safety of United States government bonds. ...

Send a message to Washington about foreclosures

There's been lots of discussion in Washington, D.C., and throughout the rest of the country about the merits of the Obama administration's plans to help homeowners in or at the risk of foreclosure. org Web site-like this blog and Consumer Reports, published ...
Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports and the Home & Garden blog, describes the Obama administration's plan to fight foreclosures, announced today during an address by the president in Mesa, Arizona, as " Read the entire CU release and the ...
With nobody in line for the top spot at the Department of Health and Human Services after former Sen. Tom Daschle bowed out, the time line for the Obama administration to fill other health-related jobs is in limbo.. Both the Food and ...
Despite being approved in the Senate, and backed by advocacy groups including Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports, the bill to extend the deadline for the shutoff of analog TV was defeated today in Congress. But advocates, including Consumers Union, are ...
The House has failed to pass a bill that would have delayed the transition from analog to digital television for four months. Joel Kelsey, a policy analyst for Consumers Union, the non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports, said without delaying the switchover, the ...

DTV delay gains support

Momentum is building for a postponement of the DTV transition, now scheduled for Feb. 17. Last week, Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, urged Congress to delay the transition until a plan is in place to ensure that millions of ...
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