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Privatization
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Postal Workers Push Back Against Privatization and Post Office Closures
With rallies at more than 150 locations nationwide, the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) called for a cancellation of plans to close 82 mail processing centers early next year …
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Report: US Cities Increasingly Spurn Water Privatization
Industry countering with heightened PR, policy interference.
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Wall Street Journal Reports: Bank of North Dakota Outperforms Wall Street
The answer is something the privately-owned major media have tried to sweep under the rug: the public banking model is simply more profitable and efficient than the private model.
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We Need to Act Now to Save the Post Office
One of those less-well-known but incredibly important priorities for Congress is saving the US Post Service.
Pay Rent or Drink Water: The Human Rights Crisis in Detroit Escalates
Water shutoffs in Detroit have resumed, targeting the “most vulnerable and poorest” of the city's population, according to UN observers.
Mariana Mazzucato: Government Risk and Private Sector Reward
Is there a role for the state in fostering innovation?
What Do Private Prisons Have to Do With the Upcoming Election?
As Election Day draws near, what are some of the ways that private prison corporations support their candidates? What do they receive in return?
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Governor Brownback Outsourced Child Support Services to Donor
In March 2013, the Kansas Department of Children and Families announced that all child support services would be outsourced.
US Treasury and Transportation Departments Hold a Privatization Party
Ignoring the benefits of taxes as a revenue source forces us into depending on the people who crashed the economy to fund our infrastructure.
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Pay to Prey: Governors Facilitate the Predatory Outsourcing of US Public Services
Shocking new allegations of a murder-for-hire plot are emerging from Michigan as the media digs deeper into that state's failed outsourcing of prison services.