Current Campaigns
Identity Theft Protection
In an increasingly high-tech marketplace, we trust businesses with more of our personal information than ever before. Yet many companies aren’t as careful as we think—concealing security breaches or questionable sales of information that make consumers vulnerable to identity theft. Read more.Predatory Lending
Payday lenders, rent-to-own stores, tax refund anticipation loan (RAL) firms, auto title pawn stores and others have built an industry by kicking low-income, working-class and military families when they’re down. Some states have reined in these predatory lenders, but not all—and certainly not Congress. Georgia PIRG fights to regulate the industry’s misleading promises and triple-digit interest rates, and to educate consumers on how to protect themselves. Read more.
