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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 .
592. Website. www .consumerreports .org. 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 ...
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.
The court in a 7-2 vote ruled that the funding structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which allows the agency to be funded directly by the Federal Reserve, ...
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.
Consumer Reports says those EPA limits don’t go far enough. “We believe that the limits should be lower to be more protective,” James Rogers, Ph.D., the director of food safety research and ...
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.
Public Citizen Litigation Group. Public Citizen Litigation Group is a public interest law firm in the United States.The group is the litigation arm of the non-profit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen. Its attorneys work on cases involving health and safety regulation, consumer rights, separation of powers, access to the courts ...
Joe Raedle/Getty Images. A federal judge gave a green light to the National Association of Realtors’ settlement, paving the way for an overhaul of the way people buy and sell their homes in the ...