This year I spent the holidays in Chicago where I once lived for two decades. When I left Chicago in 2000, parking meters cost
Tag: privatization
Starving the infrastructure beast: Privatization vs. the American Jobs Act
With 13.1 million Americans waking up every morning with no job to go to, how should we make sense of the three-time Senate “no”
Corporations push privatized education – with predictable results
Private corporations are setting their sites on the education industry, as spending on education comes under review as budget concerns continue to plague states
Nine reasons why privatization is such a bad idea
Republicans love to talk about privatizing government functions, because, according to them, a for-profit business model is so much more efficient. But Wendy Gittleson,
Privatization myths debunked
The move to privatize public services—parking meters, public libraries, postal services, correctional facilities, roads, bridges, national parks, the military and Social Security, to name