Recent research shows that outsourcing public services to private companies and Wall Street banks increases income inequality and adversely impacts communities of color. This fact sheet explains how outsourcing degrades the [...]

This report examines the quality of transparency of city spending in America's 30 largest cities. It notes the availability of spending information and ease of access to this information, including online databases with [...]

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 [...]

This fact sheet discusses the push for water privatization, some of the key problems with private equity takeovers of water systems, and offers several alternative solutions for communities dealing with fiscal crisis. [...]

This guide is designed to answer questions municipal councillors and civic officials might have about public-private partnerships (P3s or PPPs).

This report recommends that Michigan lawmakers investigate the failed promises of prison privatization in Michigan and other states before rushing to pass proposals under consideration. The report cautions against prison [...]

This report discusses the preliminary findings of the full report to help the public understand the scope of the problem caused by prison privatization in Arizona and to encourage more discussion and review before any more [...]