Important wins for Texas consumers this legislative session
Lawmakers acted to curtail surprise medical bills, protect data privacy, improve pedestrian safety, and more.
Together we can make sure tax and budget decisions reflect our shared priorities and balance competing values.
Lawmakers acted to curtail surprise medical bills, protect data privacy, improve pedestrian safety, and more.
Our money is quite literally being used to hurtle us faster toward climate disaster.
Students have been struggling with the high cost of textbooks for years. For vulnerable students, the pandemic has made the problem much worse. U.S. PIRG released a survey on Wednesday of more than 5,000 students at 82 colleges and universities, revealing the devastating effects that the pandemic has had on students’ ability to fully participate in class.
AUSTIN — Texas received an A- when it comes to government spending transparency, according to “Following the Money 2014: How the 50 States Rate in Providing Online Access to Government Spending Data,” the fifth annual report of its kind by the TexPIRG Education Fund.