privatization

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  2/16/2023
  

  Those "Local" School Battles in Texas are Part of a Decades-Long Statewide Plan to Undermine Public Schools

  Advocates of privatizing public schools have bankrolled and organized parents' groups around a range of values issues with the goal of undermining confidence in local schools. In Texas, it seems to be working to break down the longstanding opposition of rural families to voucher programs. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  9/27/2022
  

  Puerto Rico Needs Public Electric Utilities, Not More Privatization

  by Alex Standen

  Worker protest movements created the public utilities that used to provide electricity to Puerto Rico. In the face of the disastrous failure of the privatized utility system highlighted by Hurricanes Fiona and Maria, a similar movement is needed now. 

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  12/10/2020
  

  The Growth Of Market-Oriented Urban Policy — A Review Of Neoliberal Cities

  by Tracy Neumann

  A new collection of essays seeks to develop a historical understanding and grounding for the often vague term "neoliberalism" through its transformation of urban space and politics. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/11/2020
  

  Trump’s Attack on the Postal Service Is a Threat to Democracy—and to Rural America

  You’d think that the Republican Party, which depends on the undue weight given to rural voters for its continued political life, would be particularly solicitous of the post office. But, at the higher reaches, its ideological preoccupations are stronger: the post office is a government service, and therefore bad; it should be run instead by people who can make money from it.

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• SOURCE: The National Interest
  5/17/2020
  

  Donald Trump Is Redefining the Role of "Big Government" in America

  by Amitai Etzioni

  Donald Trump's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has not renewed "big government." Trump has channeled public funds to private enterprises and left state and local governments responsible for providing services without the resources or power to do the job effectively.

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• 2/16/20
  

  In Defense of Public Institutions

  by Elizabeth Stice

  While the generations of the past sought to establish public institutions, in our era, there is a relentless push for more privatization, far beyond the postal service.