Disguised as an effort to reduce veteran suicide, the Improve Act has become a magnet for corporate influence.
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Posted inHousing
Public Housing Is Going Private, and It’s Congress’s Fault
HUD has turned to the private market for money that legislators won’t provide.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Private Utility Companies Keep Merging and Merging
A reported deal between PPL and Avangrid would create an East Coast energy giant with over 13 million customers. That could be bad for ratepayers, and the climate.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Disrupting Democracy: When Big Tech Takes Over a City
Google partner Sidewalk Labs wants to remake the Toronto waterfront as a privately run digital development. It may really be a digital dystopia.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Congressional Black Caucus Institute Takes CoreCivic Cash, Boosts Policies That Help Private Prisons
As it benefits from the corporate coffers of private prison giant CoreCivic, the institute advocates privatized reentry programs from which the company profits.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How Private Prison Companies Could Get Around a Federal Ban
Structured as real-estate investment trusts, private companies could receive funds to build prisons and lease them to governments for use.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
VA Privatization Bill Threatens Closure of Key Facilities
Republican architects of the VA MISSION Act want to fast-track a commission that would have expansive authority to close VA hospitals.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Banning Private Prisons—and Prisoner Exploitation
Elizabeth Warren’s newest plan goes beyond limiting the private role in mass incarceration, and seeks to prevent corporate abuse of vulnerable inmates.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
D-Day for the VHA?
Trump officials set the agency up to fail with a new program that outsources veterans health care to the private sector.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The VA Is Privatizing Veterans’ Health Care While Launching a Campaign to Deny It
Acutely aware that its privatization plan has little support among veterans, the VA has launched a PR blitz to obscure what it’s doing.