ITPI Commentary

New Report: "Floodlights Instead of Flashlights"

03/14/2012

Today, In The Public Interest releases a groundbreaking report exposing the ways in which government contracting and privatization limit our access to public information.

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We Can Improve Our Water Systems Without Tripling Household Bills

03/01/2012

By Mary Grant, Food and Water Watch

If you're a regular denizen of a U.S. city, water infrastructure is probably out of sight and out of mind - that is until you have to boil your water before drinking it, or your water bill skyrockets, or a clogged sewer pipe swamps your lawn or a broken water main floods the road stopping traffic.

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Sector(s): Water and Sewer | Issues: Core Public Capacity, Costs, Quality |

The Private Prison Industry: Resistance isn't Futile

02/29/2012

By Eric Lotke, SEIU

The private prison industry is on the march. In recent months the industry moved to take over 24 state prisons in southern Florida and buy five prisons in Ohio. Now it's making moves in Michigan.

But the industry doesn't always win. Resistance isn't futile.

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Sector(s): Prisons, Detention and Public Safety | Issues: Accountability and Transparency, Costs, Quality |

The 99% Plan: The privatization trap

An employee of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Stewart Detention Center in
02/13/2012

By Mike Konczal, Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute

Privatizing the government is one of the most active projects of the early 21st century.

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Sector(s): General | Issues: Accountability and Transparency, Core Public Capacity, Costs, Quality |

The Privatization of Public Services, State by State

02/02/2012

 

It seems there's no public service or piece of property that private companies are not eyeing as potential revenue streams. While funding anti-government think tanks like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), companies like Corrections Corporation of America, Waste Management, Maximus, Intuit, Laidlaw, Northrup Grumman, Koch Companies, Macquarie Capital Advisers, Pinnacle West, and UnitedHealthcare are hoping to use government as their candy store.

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Sector(s): General, Education and School Services, Prisons, Detention and Public Safety, Water and Sewer | Issues: |