Privatization

Health care isn't the first boon that President Obama tried to give us through a public-private partnership.

The prisoners themselves would play a critical role in making this scheme by having to sign away their right to be incarcerated and rehabilitated within the state of West …

Vermont and West Virginia recently introduced transparency and accountability legislation aimed at protecting taxpayersand putting them back in charge of their public services.

Pennsylvania residents should be asking tough questions about the state's 40-year contract to privatize bridges.

Public education, one of the storied pillars of our society, is under attack by people and institutions who like to think of themselves as reformers.

Contrarians of the world should unite to identify and challenge these ruling ideas.

Handing previous public services over to private corporations, without assessing the full costs, can become a 75-year-long nightmare, as in the case of parking in Chicago, argues Ellen Dannin.

The charges highlight the problems that come with privatizing critical government functions.

Language in boilerplate contracts and the advice of advisers with conflicts of interest often serve to favor privatization of public services, such as highway construction, which can cost taxpayers …

Henry Giroux: Cultivating the radical imagination, civic education and critical modes of literacy are central to producing an informed citizenry, but even more so to constituting any viable notion …