Six Reasons Why Government Contracting Can Negatively Impact Quality Jobs and Why it Matters for Everyone

Publication Date: 
10/4/2012

Author Information

Janice Fine
In The Public Interest

This paper summarizes recent research that shows how the public sector provides quality middle-class jobs, and describes how government privatization eliminates these good jobs without much savings to the taxpayer, and increases inequality, which is costly - today and in the future.