Privatization

Dallas business interests stacked the school board. Now, a rule change could open the door for wholesale school privatization.

Once an effort to improve public education, the charter school movement has transformed into a money-making venture.

Activists successfully forced a moratorium to the water shut-offs after thousands protested and rallied in downtown Detroit. New actions are planned for late August to protest discrimination and the …

Contractors, politicians and financiers have been claiming that tiny slivers of private money bring efficiency to the formerly public process of highway building, spurring innovation and freeing taxpayer dollars …

In New Jersey, Chris Christie justifies charter school growth on the basis of fair competition and parent demand. But behind the scenes, budget austerity and little-known development incentives have …

While Obamacare expands Medicaid, various states are also privatizing it, increasing the costs and decreasing the benefits to the poor under the ideological cover of teaching them how to …

As soon as the new federal water law was enacted, three water organizations took the lead to transform it into a vehicle for privatization. We report on how their …

The savage methods of alleged “economic efficiency” and privatization increase neither efficiency nor competition, but do lead to price increases for consumers, higher costs for government, corruption, embezzlement and …

After a week of direct actions protesting privatization and water service shutoffs, the people of Detroit reject a Wall Street-dictated world, decry commodification of the commons and push back …

The outsourcing of public services to private go-getters has concentrated wealth the whole world over. The best answer to that concentration? That just may be new forms of public …