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Democracy, shared prosperity, and the common good

In the Public Interest is a comprehensive research and policy center on privatization and responsible contracting.

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In the Public Interest is a comprehensive research and policy center on privatization and responsible contracting.

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Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

A ‘Marshall Plan for Middle America’

A weekly email newsletter for organizers, journalists, and others concerned about privatization of public services.
November 2020
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

Trump’s sabotage of Postal Service is a ‘coup attempt in the making’

Our weekly email newsletter on the privatization of schools, water, and other public goods.
August 2020
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

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
Weekly Privatization Report

New mobile game based on private prisons goes viral

A new mobile game called “Prison Empire Tycoon” has over three million downloads on Apple's App Store.
July 2020
Weekly Privatization Report

A privately-funded border wall built to support Trump is at risk of falling down

Our weekly analysis of privatization in the news and communities nationwide.
July 2020
Weekly Privatization Report

Are private prison companies on the ropes? Their stocks are tanking.

In the Public Interest's weekly analysis of privatization in the news and communities nationwide.
June 2020
Weekly Privatization Report

Conservatives call for selling off federal public lands

Our weekly analysis of privatization in the news and communities nationwide.
June 2020
Weekly Privatization Report

Will St. Louis Lambert International Airport soon be back on sale?

Our weekly analysis of privatization in the news and communities nationwide.
June 2020
Weekly Privatization Report

No, Mitch, allowing states to go bankrupt would be devastating. Just look at Puerto Rico.

Our weekly analysis of privatization in the news and in communities nationwide.
May 2020
Weekly Privatization Report

The kids are alright. Poll finds Gen Z is overwhelmingly pro-government.

Our weekly analysis of privatization in the news and in communities nationwide.
May 2020
Weekly Privatization Report

Despite Trump corruption, trust in government is soaring

In the Public Interest's weekly analysis of privatization in the news and in communities nationwide.
May 2020
Weekly Privatization Report

During this #TeacherAppreciationWeek, let’s remember the teachers lost so far to coronavirus

Our weekly analysis of privatization in the news and in communities nationwide.
May 2020

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