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Tag: privatization

Chicago’s undemocratic, corrupt, parking-privatization nightmare

January 10, 2013 Madonna Gauding Corporations, Government, Privatization 2 comments

This year I spent the holidays in Chicago where I once lived for two decades. When I left Chicago in 2000, parking meters cost

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Starving the infrastructure beast: Privatization vs. the American Jobs Act

January 27, 2012 Renee Shur Consumer issues, Corporations, Economy, Employment, Government, Infrastructure 2 comments

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”

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Corporations push privatized education – with predictable results

December 30, 2011 Mike Davis Business, Corporations, Education 2 comments

Private corporations are setting their sites on the education industry, as spending on education comes under review as budget concerns continue to plague states

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Nine reasons why privatization is such a bad idea

August 8, 2011 Madonna Gauding Government One comment

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,

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Privatization myths debunked

October 28, 2010 Madonna Gauding Economy, Good government, Infrastructure, Politics One comment

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

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