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Your weekly rundown of news and analysis about the corporate takeover of education, water, and other public goods.
September 2021
In the Public Interest
Democracy, shared prosperity, and the common good
In the Public Interest is a comprehensive research and policy center on privatization and responsible contracting.
In the Public Interest
Democracy, shared prosperity, and the common good
In the Public Interest is a comprehensive research and policy center on privatization and responsible contracting.
Sanders: ‘We are not going to build bridges just so our people can live under them.’
Your weekly email rundown of news and analysis about the corporate takeover of education, water, and other public goods—and about the people fighting back.
September 2021
Texas’s abortion ban privatizes its own enforcement [...]
Your weekly rundown of news and analysis about the corporate takeover of education, water, and other public goods.
September 2021
Will climate science be privatized?
Your weekly rundown of news and analysis about the corporate takeover of education, water, and other public goods
August 2021
Florida uses anti-mask hysteria to further privatize public education
A weekly rundown of news and analysis about the corporate takeover of education, water, and other public goods.
August 2021
Toll road operators push to keep privatization in the bipartisan infrastructure deal
Your weekly rundown of news and analysis about the corporate takeover of education, water, and other public goods.
July 2021
Progressives increase pressure to cut privatization from bipartisan infrastructure deal
Your weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods.
July 2021
Candy maker Russell Stover is exploiting prison labor
Your weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods
July 2021
Biden’s infrastructure deal incentivizes more toll roads
Your weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods.
June 2021
Alabama is considering using federal COVID-19 relief to build new prisons
That and more in this week's privatization report email newsletter, news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods.
June 2021
Across the country, public libaries are keeping people alive by feeding them
A weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods.
June 2021
Andrew Yang’s conservative views on public education
A weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods.
May 2021
Americans are more anti-big business than at any time in decades
Your weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods.
May 2021
As deaths spike in India, pharmaceutical companies are fighting free vaccines
A weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods—and about the people fighting back.
May 2021
D.C. issues press release essentially saying it will overpay for streetlights for no reason
Your weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods—and about the people fighting back.
April 2021
Racism is built into American infrastructure
Your weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods
April 2021
Biden infrastructure plan revives a New Deal-era success by proposing Civilian Climate Corps
Your weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods—and about the people fighting back.
April 2021
DeSantis privatized Florida’s vaccine rollout, leaving working people and communities of [...]
A weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods—and about the people fighting back.
April 2021
Google-connected tech company gets in on proposed privatized Maryland toll road
A weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods—straight to your email inbox.
March 2021
Rhode Island voters resist austerity by approving $400 million in new public investment
A weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of public goods—and about the people fighting back.
March 2021
Women’s work is the backbone of the global economy
Your weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods—and about the people fighting back. Not a subscriber? Sign up. Highlights Women’s work is the backbone of [...]
March 2021
The making of a global private security corporate behemoth
Your weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods—and about the people fighting back.
March 2021
Leading medical journal blames U.S. failure to address pandemic on privatization
A weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods—and about the people fighting back.
February 2021
Excerpt from GEO Group’s 2020 Annual Report
GEO Group 2020 Annual Report/10-K from SEC website: Expirations: “Two agencies of the DOJ, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) and U.S. Marshals Service (“USMS”), utilize our services. The BOP houses inmates who [...]
February 2021
Corporations could soon be allowed to create their own local governments
Your weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods—and about the people fighting back. Not a subscriber? Sign up. Highlights “Now they love her.” [...]
February 2021
Is privatization creating ‘vaccination chaos?’
A weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods—and about the people fighting back.
February 2021
What a state-level debate over privatizing vaccine distribution reveals about the nationwide [...]
A weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods—and about the people fighting back
February 2021
Iowa governor harkens back to segregation with proposed changes to education system
A weekly rundown of news and analysis about the harm caused by privatizing education, water, and other public goods
January 2021
How the Trump administration botched the vaccine rollout
A weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods.
January 2021
Trump’s Capitol riot was a toxic mix of racism and anti-government sentiment
A weekly rundown of news and analysis about the privatization of public goods, and the communities fighting back.
January 2021
Need an ambulance? Think twice, you might get a huge bill.
Our weekly email newsletter for people concerned about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods.
January 2021
How New Orleans activists kept greedy developers from draining the public library’s budget
A weekly email newsletter for people concerned about the privatization of education, water, and other public services.
December 2020
Philadelphia just turned up the democracy in its budgeting process
A weekly email newsletter for people concerned about the privatization of education, water, and other public services.
December 2020
Canada can’t make vaccines because it privatized production decades ago
That and more, in our weekly email newsletter for people concerned about the privatization of education, water, and other public services.
November 2020
A ‘Marshall Plan for Middle America’
A weekly email newsletter for organizers, journalists, and others concerned about privatization of public services.
November 2020
Black women organizers lay out the strategy for what’s next in Georgia
Our weekly email newsletter for organizers, journalists, and others concerned about the privatization of education, water, and other public services.
November 2020
Arizona voters pass tax on the rich to pay teachers more
A weekly email newsletter for people about the privatization of education, water, and other public services.
November 2020
Privatization is on the ballot
An email newsletter for organizers, journalists, and others concerned about the privatization of education, water, and other public services.
November 2020
How George Floyd got caught in a web of mass incarceration, private prisons, and overpolicing
An email newsletter for organizers, journalists, and others concerned about the privatization of education, water, and other public services.
October 2020
Increasing number of Americans want an active government to tackle things like public health
An email newsletter for organizers, journalists, and others concerned about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods.
October 2020
States step up protections for voters against right-wing ‘poll watchers’
An email newsletter for organizers, journalists, and others concerned about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods.
October 2020
Soccer-focused charter school proposal slammed by Pennsylvania school board
The latest edition of In the Public Interest's email newsletter for all those concerned about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods.
October 2020
States and cities can’t afford to not tax the rich
This week's edition of In the Public Interest's email newsletter for journalists and others concerned about the corporate takeover of public goods.
September 2020
Corporations are suing Maryland over transit public-private partnership fiasco
An email newsletter for organizers, journalists, and others concerned about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods.
September 2020
Local protests to #SaveUSPS are picking up steam
An email newsletter for organizers, journalists, and others concerned about the privatization of education, water, and other public goods.
September 2020
Cost of Prince George’s school construction public-private partnership skyrockets
Our email newsletter for organizers, journalists, and others concerned about the privatization of public schools, water, and other public goods.
September 2020
Private prison corporation CoreCivic to change corporate status after grassroots pressure
In the Public Interest's weekly analysis of privatization of schools, water, and other public goods in the news and communities nationwide.
August 2020
Federal agency making ‘proactive arrests’ of protestors is rife with private security [...]
Our weekly analysis of the corporate takeover of schools, water, and other public goods in the news and communities nationwide.
July 2020
Privatized coronavirus testing has been a “nightmare”
Our weekly analysis of privatization (of schools, water, and other public goods) in the news and communities nationwide. [...]
July 2020