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Privatization
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.
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A Red State Privatization Horror Story
For Republicans, privatization is just a business opportunity.
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Public Infrastructure, Private Investment? Whose Hands Are in Whose Pockets?
In reading the US Treasury Department's glowing new report on public-private partnerships, truth must be separeted from fiction.
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How Privatizing Medical Records Will Harm You
Things like health care, education, roads and even voting systems should never be put in the control of giant corporations that only care about making a buck.
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Taming Modern Monopolies
We need to expand the struggle against privatizers, according to Sam Pizzigati.
Students Should Be Creative Innovators, Not Force-Fed Consumers of Status-Quo Knowledge
Unless students are empowered to help shape their own educations, and use their skills and energy to fight for justice and make their neighborhoods better places, there will be …
The Gates Foundation Education Reform Hype Machine and Bizarre Inequality Theory
In a graphic, interactive investigation by Adam Bessie and Dan Carino, take a look under the hood of The Gates Foundation's multimillion dollar public relations machine designed to turn …