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Privatization
Protecting Classrooms From Corporate Takeover: What Families Can Learn From Teachers’ Unions
Teachers are fighting the privatization wave by connecting with families right where they live.
Out-of-Control Transit Costs in Boston or Attack on Public Services?
ALEC affiliate Pioneer Institute is targeting both Massachusetts Sen. Marc Pacheco and the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority.
APWU Pres. Mark Dimondstein Calls For Defense Of The People’s Post Office
Mark Dimondstein president of the American Postal Workers Union spoke in Chicago at the Labor Notes convention on how to defend the People's Post Office.
A Vote for Change: Costa Rica Votes in a New President
Costa Rica's 2014 elections were essentially a litmus test for public opinion on the neoliberal policies promoted by CAFTA, the IMF and World Bank, with public opinion overwhelmingly opposed …
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Ten Things Wrong With What Kids Learn In School
Mainstream media, cued by corporate press releases, routinely claim that America's schools are markedly inferior to schools in other developed nations. The claim is part of an organized campaign …
Sheppard Air Force Base: Uncounted Costs of Privatizing Government Services
Presidents Clinton and Bush supported the privatization of public services even when there was no credible evidence that the private sector cost less or delivered superior quality.
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With Hippocratic Oath, Doctors Pledge Allegiance To Patients, Not Profits
It's pretty unusual for two-thirds of a group of doctors to agree on something as controversial as a single-payer health care system.
Federal Privatization and the Expensive Philosophy of the Circular A-76 Process
How much has the federal policy of privatizing public work and preventing government from “competing” with citizens actually saved?
Elizabeth Warren’s Post Office Proposal
Investigative reporter Greg Palast is usually good at seeing through the rhetoric. But in tearing into Senator Elizabeth Warrenu2019s support of postal financial services, he has done a serious …
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A Rededication to Public Education
We need to put the public back in public education and be clear about our goals and the best way to achieve them.