Privatizing public transit parking in the DC area for the next 50 years would be foolish for a number of reasons.

As public budgets have tightened, investors operating with little transparency or oversight have increasingly taken over many public services Americans rely on every day.

It didn't start with the parking meters. It didn't even start on Mayor Rahm Emmanuel's watch. But the privatization of public services and assets in the city of Chicago is reaching a fevered pitch and more people than ever [...]

Today, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), publishers of the award-winning ALECexposed.org, launched OutsourcingAmericaExposed.org, a web resource devoted to helping taxpayers identify the corporations seeking to [...]

The new state budget calls for a massive sell-off of Ohio public assets worth billions of dollars. Among the properties that may be privatized are the Ohio Turnpike, six prisons and the liquor distribution business. The [...]

This backgrounder brief explores problems related to the privatization of municipal services, and provides examples of experiences from cities around the country that have considered or have privatized critical services. [...]

This report is designed to help librarians, trustees, and other library supporters address the issue of privatization and prepare for any discussions about privatization that might arise in their communities. [...]

This paper studies the determinants of privatization at the level of U.S. city government.