Every day consumers are threatened by unsafe products and rip-off scams.
Pollution pours into our water and our air.
Special interests are taking increasing control of the public debate around these issues. Our interests as citizens and consumers are being exploited far too often, yet there is not enough hard data to prove it. Governmental agencies on a local, statewide or national level devote too few resources to research the problems that threated the public interest. PIRG provides such critical research. Interns will conduct an extensive public opinion poll around issues in the public interest or conduct an investigative consumer survey.