Over the last decade, the price of college textbooks has soared. Since 2006, the cost of a college textbook increased by 73% – over four times the rate of inflation. Today, individual textbooks often ...

The amount of food gets wasted every year in the United States: 33 billion pounds The percentage of the U.S. food supply that gets wasted every year: 30% The amount of water it takes to grow and ...

Ever wondered what on earth to do with your iPhone from 2012, or that laptop that’s been sitting in your junk drawer for years? If you live in Massachusetts, there are a variety of options for what to ...

Why you should consider downloading your Facebook data - and how to do it. Facebook collects data on just about everything you do on the site and app. It tracks every post you view, like and comment ...

Director, Our Online Life Program; and Don't Sell My Data Campaign, PIRG The online targeted advertising industry is currently mid-evolution. After five years of new regulations, rising consumer ...

In honor of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) 13th birthday, we are highlighting top 10 actions the federal agency took in the first half of 2024 to protect U.S. consumers. As a ...

Arizona and Nevada have proposed a $2.5 billion project to expand U.S. 93 through the desert between Phoenix and Las Vegas—a change that would mean the road could be added to the federal Interstate ...

We have a massive – and growing – electronic waste problem. In fact, Americans throw out 416,000 cell phones every day, this in addition to all of the other objects we throw out. Across the country, ...

Senior Director, Campaign for the Right to Repair, U.S. PIRG Education Fund Has this ever happened to you? You spend good money on a new device, expecting years of use—then it breaks, and fixing it is ...

U.S. Army Spc. Russell Mott, an armament electrical avionics repairer, assigned to Delta Company, 1-3rd Attack Battalion, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, repairs the wire harness for the generator on an ...

Many aspects of our food safety and recall notification system don’t instill confidence. Case in point: In June 2025, the U.S Department of Agriculture announced recalls involving three ready-to-eat ...

If you have a debit card linked to your primary checking account, you’re asking for trouble. If you really want a debit card because you can’t qualify for a credit card, or because you prefer a debit ...