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Meat Industry Admits: We Need Food Safety Inspectors

Friday, March 8, 2013
By | Laura Murray
Program Associate

We’ve already written about the impact that sequestration’s across-the-board cuts will have on food safety. Now the meat industry itself chimes in.

Dangers on Our Dinner Tables

Friday, February 15, 2013
By | Laura Murray
Program Associate

Sequestration’s across-the-board approach to cuts would reduce the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service budget by 8.2 percent, or $86 million. According to a White House OMB report released in September 2012,  with this significant cut the USDA’s efforts to “inspect food processing plants and prevent foodborne illnesses would be curtailed.”

This is bad news for consumers. The food inspection program is our first line of defense against contaminated food.

Tis the season! For taxes, that is.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013
By | Laura Murray
Program Associate

 

My W-2 just came in the mail, my bank is sending me reminders to download my 1099, and my TV is full of kindly tax service professionals who assure me that they’re there to help. This weekend I’ll sit down at the kitchen table with a pile of forms and a checkbook, and I’ll pay my taxes. It’s not glamorous, but it’s something we all do.

Well, almost all of us.

Rally to Reclaim Our Democracy

Friday, January 18, 2013
By | Laura Murray
Program Associate

This Monday, January 21st, is significant in American democracy for a number of reasons.

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