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Safe Food, Healthy Kids

Did you know, most fast food chains have safety standards 10 times stronger for beef than the USDA has set for school lunches?

For years, the meat industry and other food interests have lobbied against stronger food safety standards. We’re fighting back, because if it’s not good enough for fast food, it’s not good enough for school food. Learn more.

 

PIRG Highlights

From The Newsroom

 

Biking for Rail

On March 9th, ConnPIRG students biked from Stamford to New Haven to Hartford in support of high-speed rail.
 
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History is Made

At noon, March 23rd, 2010, President Barack Obama brought a hundred-year struggle for affordable health care to a close  when he signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. 

The Senate must still take up a final set of fixes to this legislation this week, and then the state and federal government have their work cut out for them.

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