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Pitching the Gold Standard of Taxpayer Protections

Massachusetts’s Taxpayer Protection Act is the gold-standard when it comes to ensuring government contracts are awarded fairly and will result in cost-savings that don’t simply rely on slashing wages and benefits for [...]
June 2015
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Look at What We’ve Done Together

From coast to coast this year, taxpayers have rejected reckless outsourcing schemes. They are holding for-profit corporations accountable. And they are saying "no deal!" to CEOs who would put profits ahead of public health [...]
December 2013
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Lockup Quotas

On September 19, In the Public Interest released our blockbuster report “Criminal: How Lockup Quotas and ‘Low-Crime Taxes’ Guarantee Profits for Private Prison Companies.” In a matter of hours, tens of thousands of [...]
October 2013
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Exciting New Resource on Outsourcing

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 [...]
September 2013
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Privatization’s Pretensions

This article discusses potential legal and policy implications of privatization, regulations, and workaround-specific approaches to privatization agendas. The author raises questions regarding democratic, efficiency, and [...]
May 2010