Michigan AFL-CIO President Ron Bieber: Privatization doesn’t work

Michigan AFL-CIO President Ron Bieber writes on why “privatization doesn’t work.” After the Republican takeover of the state six years ago, they said they would make government run as a business. “For Gov. Rick Snyder and the Republican-controlled Legislature, it meant privatizing vital public services in our schools, prisons and a state-run home for veterans. The goal of privatization, we were told, was to save taxpayers’ money. The truth is the state’s two biggest experiments with privatization have been huge failures.” Bieber’s examples: prison food services and the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans.

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Mar 8, 2016




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