For 40 years, both Republican and, regrettably, Democratic administrations have been turning over control of health care, public water supplies, infrastructure and transportation, criminal justice, ...

A water main break shoots water into the air in the Banksville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, where the Pennsylvania American Water Company is the service provider. (Morgan Timms / Pittsburgh ...

A state lawmaker is making a renewed push for privatizing Pennsylvania’s state-controlled liquor system amid findings from the state of Washington that its voters now regret making that move in 2011.

It's the most wonderful time of the year, and Santa is done checking his list and deciding who's been naughty and nice. Of course, whenever he stops by the U.S. Capitol, he finds evidence of a lot of ...

“The Privatization of Everything” is a book that sneaks up on you. Or at least it snuck up on me. Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian’s subtitle should have prepared me: “How the Plunder of Public Goods ...

With President Trump’s promise to pass a massive new infrastructure package, there’s been a lot of renewed talk about a proposal to scrap the current Air Traffic Control system in favor of a new quasi ...

The P.E.I. Union of Public Sector Employees is raising concerns about a home-care program that it says is an example of health-care privatization — and seems to be millions of dollars over budget.

At first glance, total government spending appears stable over time. In 2024, federal, state and local expenditures made up 35% of the U.S. economy, the same as in 1982. However, my analysis of Bureau ...

Social Security privatization would shift retirement funding from the government to individual Americans. Proponents of privatization believe it can lead to higher investment returns, thus providing ...

Britain's Labor Party politicians had promoted state-owned enterprise, before and after World War II, as an almost altruistic undertaking. "The public corporation must be no mere capitalist business, ...

The current Trump administration is again focused on reforming air traffic control, following a recent spate of technical outages and staffing shortages as well as the January midair collision between ...

While the government is set to receive only 10-11 billion rupees upfront, with the remainder to be reinvested into PIA for ...