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Illinois PIRG Latest Blog Posts
3/9/2022
Dark patterns are one way apps and websites steer consumers into making the choice that’s right for the app or website but wrong for the consumer.
3/7/2022
Every day during the first week of March, PIRG is providing consumer protection tips and tools to help Americans address some of the most common consumer issues.
3/7/2022
The more these chemicals are used, the more they build up and the bigger the threat they pose.
3/7/2022
Mistakes on your credit report can cause a whole host of problems.
3/2/2022
Yesterday’s announcement of a new report finding stupefying amounts of medical debt on consumer credit reports continues the Biden CFPB’s focus on identifying and responding to consumer pain points caused by a financial marketplace that doesn’t always work for consumers. The CFPB has your back!
Photo courtesy Americans for Financial Reform, All rights reserved.
2/23/2022
There have been multiple challenges to automatic voter registration implementation in Illinois and there are still opportunities to significantly improve AVR implementation. Even with those challenges, we wanted to measure the law’s effectiveness at Secretary of State facilities since implementation began in the summer of 2018. Our analysis shows that voter registration applications at Secretary of State facilities have increased markedly, by 37 percent, which translates to an additional 111,000 voter applications every year.
2/16/2022
When it comes to selling stoves, there’s no better way to enrich lives than by helping families choose electric options that are safe and clean.
2/9/2022
In 2013, the General Assembly passed Public Act 98-57, which allows Ameren Gas, Nicor, and Peoples Gas to accelerate cost recovery by automatically raising customer bills through a bill surcharge, known as Rider QIP, to pay for certain types of infrastructure investment. The rider is scheduled to sunset December 31, 2023. House Bill 3941 would move that sunset date forward by one year, to December 31, 2022. The case for doing so is significant.