Americans purchase some 50 billion bottles of water every year. That’s more than 95,000 a minute!  All that water comes from our public water systems and groundwater. In other words, the bottled water [...]

Our pick of recent news about the effort to privatize public education in California and the families, students, and teachers fighting back.

Go figure. When African American men don’t experience delays in diagnosis or treatment, they survive just as often as white men.

In the Public Interest's pick of recent news about the effort to privatize public education in California and the families, students, and teachers fighting back.

Instead of investing in all public schools, the funders behind National School Choice Week want our communities to leave education up to private markets.

For years, we’ve heard the same false claims behind the push to use public-private partnerships to build new infrastructure, like toll roads and prisons. Private equity firms and Wall Street banks say public-private [...]

Tons of positive ink has been spilled about Kansas City, Missouri’s decision last month to make public transit fare-free, and rightly so.

Cashing in on Kids is In the Public Interest‘s pick of recent news about the privatization of public education. Not a subscriber? Sign up. Make sure to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.   [...]

We're going to start showing what truly public, democratic control over public goods means and looks like.

Our pick of recent news about the effort to privatize public education in California and the families, students, and teachers fighting back.

Thousands have been shuttered since the turn of the century. More than 35 percent of those given federal grant money between 2006 and 2014 either never opened or were shut down, costing taxpayers more than half a billion [...]

Our pick of recent news about the privatization of public education in the District and the families, students, and teachers fighting back.