Predatory Privatization

Exploiting Financial Hardship, Enriching the 1 Percent, Undermining Democracy
Publication Date: 
8/31/2012

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This report examines how the push to privatize public services and assets "often reduces the quality of services, burdens taxpayers and threatens democratic government." Stories of destructive predatory privatization noted in the report include those of the selling of public parking meter revenues, privatizing prisons, privatizing public education, and even turning over toll roads to private corporations.