Back in 2005, Wisconsin state agencies were found to be spending more contracting out for services than if they were done by existing public employees. ...
The next time a privateer tells you how awful government is and how wonderful private corporations are, send him a copy of In the Public...
This one page flyer from the ACLU cuts to the heart of the issue. For example, “Despite a massive investigation by voter ID proponents, there...
State Supreme Courts have ruled in different ways regarding the privatization of public functions. In several cases, the Courts concluded that the civil service was...
In 1978 the Supreme Court of Washington ruled that the Washington State Community College District could not contract out to a private firm custodial services...
In 1997 the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled in Konno v. County of Hawaii that a County could not privatize the operation of a landfill since...
In 1993, after Massachusetts government privatized 36 operations in the previous 3 years, the legislature passed what came to be called the Pacheco Law over...
In 1990 Illinois enacted a ban on private prisons which remains in place in 2012, declaring that “the management and operation of a correctional facility...
Since 1987, Arizona’s Department of Corrections has been legislatively mandated to produce cost and quality reviews for its private prisons, in part to judge how...
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In all other industrialized nations people who get sick get medical care without fear of the financial consequences of medical expenses. They may have to...
For its first 200 years the American Republic slowly, sometimes infuriatingly slowly and at horrific human cost (e.g. the Civil War) expanded the franchise. In...
The United States health system consists of over 400 insurance companies and thousands of different plans. Indeed, in the early 1990s, after Taiwan concluded a...
States have the authority to design their voting systems, so long as they do not violate the Constitutional Amendments or federal laws that prohibit them...
The impact of money on politics has become increasingly pronounced as a 2012 chart by Mother Jones makes clear States, cities and the federal government...