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SWRO Director
Reggie James
Project Director
Lisa McGiffert
Series Editor, Design, Photos
Kathy Mitchell
By Nicole Waldman
This report was produced by Consumers Union Southwest Regional Office.
Each year the Southwest Regional Office of Consumers Union issues reports
on consumer issues of particular concern in Texas and the Southwest United
States. Topics include financial services, health, utilities, and the
environment. You may order copies of reports by calling the Southwest
Regional Office at (512) 477-4431 x110 or writing us at 1300 Guadalupe,
Suite 100, Austin, Texas 78701. Reports are also posted on our web site
at www.consumersunion.org
in both HTML and PDF formats.
The following reports were released in 1999 and 2000:
Final Committal: Texas Problems with Pre-Paid Funeral Services and other
tales (October 2000)
Animal Factories: Pullution and Health Threats to Rural Texans (May 2000)
Access to the Dream: 2000 Minority borrowers in Texas denied standard
home loans at higher rates and take a disproportionate number of subprime
loans (April 2000)
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Payday Loans Disguise Illegal Lending (Feb 1999)
Texas Digital Divide: Telephone Competition Promise Falls Short (Feb 1999)
Payphones: San Antonio Survey (Feb 1999)
Looking Back at the Promises of Medicaid Managed Care (April 1999)
A User's Guide to the Public Information Act (June 1999)
NOTE: All above reports can be found in our Resources Section or
by clicking here.
Consumers Union also participates in the Texas Pesticide Information Network,
and produces reports and educational materials for the general public
on pesticide use. For more information about reports related to pesticide
use in Texas, please visit our web site at www.consumersunion.org.
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chartered in 1936 under the laws of the state of New York to provide consumers
with information, education, and counsel about goods, services, health,
and personal finance; and to initiate and cooperate with individual and
group efforts to maintain and enhance the quality of life for consumers.
Consumers Union's income is solely derived from the sale of Consumer Reports,
its other publications and noncommercial contributions, grants and fees.
In addition to reports on Consumers Union's own product testing, Consumer
Reports, with more than four million paid circulation, and Consumer Reports
Online (www.ConsumerReports.org) with more than 500,000 paid subscribers,
regularly carry articles on health, product safety, marketplace economics
and legislative, judicial, and regulatory actions which affect consumer
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no commercial support. Consumers Union's Southwest Regional Office, opened
in 1979, is dedicated to advocating the consumer interest, particularly
of low-income consumers, and to promoting the growth of the public interest
movement in the Southwest.
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