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Goucher College ( BA) Georgetown University ( JD) Occupations. Attorney. Lobbyist. Known for. Public Citizen. Joan Buckler Claybrook (born June 12, 1937) is an American lawyer and lobbyist who was president of Public Citizen from 1982 to 2009. [1] She also served in the Carter administration as head of the National Highway Traffic Safety ...
Joan Claybrook (President emeritus) Revenue (2019) $17,885,184 [1] Website. www .citizen .org. Actual Wordmark. Public Citizen is an American non-profit, progressive [2] consumer rights advocacy group, and think tank based in Washington, D.C.. It was founded in 1971 by the American activist and lawyer Ralph Nader .
Consumer Reports. Consumer Reports ( CR ), formerly Consumers Union ( CU ), is an American nonprofit consumer organization dedicated to independent product testing, investigative journalism, consumer-oriented research, public education, and consumer advocacy. [2] Founded in 1936, CR was created to serve as a source of information that consumers ...
Former National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Administrator Joan Claybrook told the Associated Press that the bus industry fought with safety advocates "like cats and dogs" to prevent ...
Consumer Reports wants the EPA to ban the use of organophosphates or carbamates — two classes of chemicals that affect the nervous system and that the organization says are responsible for most ...
Among those who read their reports, 44% found errors. Of the errors, 27% were potentially damaging to the consumer’s credit. The findings, released in late April, suggest that American consumers ...
Karpatkin was a central figure in the consumer rights movement of the 1970s, along with Ralph Nader and Joan Claybrook. In 2000, the year before she retired, the magazine had 4.3 million subscribers and at the time the largest paid-subscriber website with 350,000 users. Karpatkin retired in 2001.
Center for Auto Safety Site with articles from a consumer's point of view. Public Citizen, An extensive in-depth collection of advocacy for consumers. Much of its automobile defects collection voices the concerns and insights of its former president, Joan Claybrook, who was the head of NHTSA in the Carter administration.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding mechanism in a challenge brought by the payday loan industry, handing a victory to President Joe Biden ...
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement is a 1980 book by economists Milton and Rose D. Friedman, accompanied by a ten-part series broadcast on public television, that advocates free market principles. It was primarily a response to an earlier landmark book and television series The Age of Uncertainty, by the noted economist John Kenneth Galbraith.