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By the 1990s, under Democrat Bill Clinton, the deregulation and privatization boom hit hard. (sgn.org)
In that time, two successive New Zealand governments-the first led by the formerly socialist Labour Party and the second by the nominally conservative National Party-carried out a massive program of deregulation, downsizing, and privatization that makes Thatchernomics seem plodding. (reason.com)
Here I'm limiting my discussion to issues that most directly implicate unions, though there's plenty more for workers to fear from the incoming administration-including increasing privatization and broad-brush deregulation, as well as efforts to pit workers against one another by fanning the flames of racism, sexism, and hostility toward immigrants. (labornotes.org)

Trump doubled down on privatization by instituting direct contracting entities (DCEs). (sgn.org)
Opponents of privatization, including Shulkin, nearly all veterans service organizations and key lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill, could breathe at least a momentary sigh of relief when Trump announced Jackson as his nominee to be the next VA secretary. (govexec.com)
Republicans want privatization, Trump wants to stick it to Amazon. (vox.com)

The most vulnerable Democrat in the U.S. Senate, Alabama's Doug Jones, leveled a traditional Democratic charge against his Republican opponent Tommy Tuberville. (politifact.com)
He once called for reducing the state minimum wage, but retreated in the face of public opinion and even his Republican opponents. (peoplesworld.org)
Back in 2006, a lame-duck Republican Congress turned up the pressure on privatization by forcing the Postal Service to prefund decades of pension and retiree health costs through investments in low-yield government bonds. (vox.com)
In a battle of blue vs. red, Republican lawmakers this session have pushed heavily for privatization as a cost-saving measure, despite opposing views from many Democrats. (justicestrategies.org)

A major charter school investor, Rauner advocates privatization of public education, union busting and slashing public worker pensions. (peoplesworld.org)
Privatization advocates argue that spinning off air traffic control into a non-government entity would allow for a more efficient system and rapid, cost-effective improvements of technology, in part by avoiding the government procurement process. (newsmax.com)

A new report released by the Private Corrections Institute, a nonprofit advocacy group that provides information about the pitfalls of correctional privatization, suggests the practice of prison privatization might not be saving the state as much money as existing research indicates. (justicestrategies.org)

Back in 2003, when faced with the same Privatization threat, the response was remarkably different. (jetcareers.com)
Its opponents have cast the bill as favouring "privatization" and as a threat to the Canadian model of public health care. (cdhowe.org)
If privatization were a real and a growing threat, the evidence would be in the numbers. (johnlocke.org)

He said his opponents within the department, whom he repeatedly vowed to oust , were fighting to privatize VA health care and saw him as a barrier in achieving that goal. (govexec.com)

Those statements describe the narratives progressives and other opponents of educational freedom use to blunt the growth of school choice in North Carolina. (johnlocke.org)
His prominent opponents in the PDP, many of them multi-millionaires, accuse Buhari and his All Progressives' Congress of bashing corporations to win over wavering voters and claim he is frightening investors. (africa-confidential.com)
He threatened to activate his political action committee, Utah Progressives, to gather signatures to get liquor privatization on the ballot. (fox13now.com)

But rather than achieving its apparent intended result of spurring privatization, in practice it mostly served to give privatization opponents something to complain about rather than addressing the underlying decline in USPS's business model. (vox.com)

The preparation for the legislation has been accompanied by a vicious crackdown in recent weeks on students opposed to privatisation. (dailymirror.lk)
Opponents fear the new legislation will lead to 'privatisation' of universities, higher fees, selection, domination by business and competition between establishments leading to increased inequalities. (universityworldnews.com)

The effort stalled as public concerns grew and opponents tagged it as privatization. (politifact.com)
Opponents of privatization contend that diverting billions of taxpayer dollars from public schools to Christian and Catholic institutions, which make up the majority of private schools in the United States, also raises concerns about the traditional American separation of church and state affairs. (voanews.com)

Putting liquor privatization up to a public vote would not happen until after the 2017 legislative session, the senator said. (fox13now.com)

The arrests, however, are broadly aimed at intimidating students, stifling political activity and suppressing any opposition to the privatisation moves. (dailymirror.lk)
On October 26, the president summoned university vice chancellors for a meeting to deal with student opposition to privatisation. (dailymirror.lk)

Opponents of the TPP, which includes the CWI, warn it will lead to higher food and drug prices, more privatisation and outsourcing. (socialistworld.net)
Critics of so-called privatization warn that as public dollars get transferred to private schools, the elimination of public schools is at hand. (johnlocke.org)

Misuse of government power for other purposes, such as repression of political opponents and general police brutality, is also considered political corruption. (wikipedia.org)
Miguel Frasquilho, an economist and former TAP chairman, said the privatisation of the national carrier, which the government hoped to start this year, will be suspended and 'it will only be able to proceed with a new government' exercising full powers. (yahoo.com)
The harsh restructuring imposed to make the company profitable and sustainable is now bearing fruit and the government should not rush its privatisation,' he said. (yahoo.com)
The minister said the previous government misused the NAB laws for victimizing political opponents and achieving other ulterior motives. (com.pk)
We do believe in privatization but would not harm people and their businesses like the PTI government did. (com.pk)
The IUSF, which is linked to the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), is notorious on campuses for thuggery against their political opponents, providing the government with a pretext for repressive measures. (dailymirror.lk)
The Government has undertaken a privatization programme of major parastatals (state-owned corporations), although this is often criticized for being mired in corruption and hastily implemented. (newint.org)
Kampo now controls about 40% of Japan's life market, in part because it receives many hidden and explicit government subsidies, opponents of the current system say. (thinkadvisor.com)

Since the 2005 election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the burning economic issue in Iran has been the privatization of public assets and, more recently, the elimination of subsidies for a vast array of goods and services. (merip.org)
Though the debate seems new, the privatization of public assets has been a constant, albeit disputed strategy of consolidation for the Islamic Republic from the outset. (merip.org)
Privatization of public assets has taken place in waves, always accompanied by a rational justification: The privatization of public land in the 1980s was carried out in the name of distributive justice, while the sale of city skyline and the liberalization of zoning laws in the 1990s were presented as the precondition for urban renewal. (merip.org)

Critics say DeVos' policies encourage further privatization of education in American cities and towns and undermine the public school system. (voanews.com)

This was a NATCA funded study on why Privatization is bad business for everyone, written by respected economist Dr.Sclar or Columbia University. (jetcareers.com)

Shulkin has blamed political operatives within the department for undermining his tenure as secretary, and for trying to advance a too-aggressive privatization agenda within the department. (armytimes.com)
That is because I am convinced that privatization is a political issue aimed at rewarding select people and companies with profits, even if it undermines care for veterans. (govexec.com)
Liquor privatization would draw political battle lines. (fox13now.com)
This is a crucial development because for the past thirty-five years in Latin America, such shocks from outside have served to create the political conditions required to justify the imposition of "shock therapy"-the constellation of corporate-friendly "emergency" economic measures like large-scale privatizations and deep cuts to social spending that debilitate the state in the name of free markets. (venezuelanalysis.com)

Vets groups and lawmakers say they're against it - but what does 'privatization' of Veterans Affairs really mean? (armytimes.com)
But the term "privatization" has become an ill-defined pejorative within the veterans community, meaning different things to different people. (armytimes.com)

A Rauner victory could conceivably move sections of the Democratic Party dominated by corporate interests to the right, especially on school privatization. (peoplesworld.org)

Electoral unity is necessary even while public sector unions are fighting Quinn and Democratic Party legislative leaders who backed a public worker pension reform that labor opposed and while the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), parents and community organizations wage a bitter fight against Mayor Rahm Emanuel and sections of the Democratic Party pushing school privatization and union busting. (peoplesworld.org)
Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano has taken a stance against privatization, questioning whether cost savings are occurring, said Napolitano spokeswoman Jeanine L'Ecuyer. (justicestrategies.org)

The President since 2005, Jakaya Kikwete, has maintained the neoliberal and pro-privatization policies of his predecessors. (newint.org)
The PDP espouses ostensibly pro-market policies, more privatisation and a plan to float the naira. (africa-confidential.com)

Privatization is often used more when the 401(k) is used as a substitute and tries to make use of current revenues to Social Security," said Eugene Steuerle, cofounder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. (politifact.com)
In the 1990s and 2000s, there was also an international policy trend towards privatisation, especially in the former socialist economies of Central and Eastern Europe, but also in emerging economies in Asia and Latin America. (iea.org.uk)
Kevin Pranis, a criminal justice policy analyst with Justice Strategies, recently re-examined several prison cost studies that are used to justify prison privatization, finding that much of that research suffers from methodological flaws, is badly outdated and, in the case of one researcher who boasted the Marana prison as a success, has been discredited by financial ties to the industry. (justicestrategies.org)

Privatization of public schools refers to efforts by policymakers to shift public education funds and students into the private sector. (johnlocke.org)
He then linked privatization efforts to Tusk, his main competitor, a former prime minister who leads the pro-business Civic Platform party. (wkbn.com)
The Postal Privatization Commission deserves credit for its efforts to date to ensure transparency in its role in the privatization process," ACLI President Frank Keating says in a statement about the commission's findings. (thinkadvisor.com)

On 30 November, the Aldenham School Business Society in Hertfordshire invited the IEA's Kristian Niemietz to give a talk on nationalisation and privatisation. (iea.org.uk)
A list of basic principles in Japan's postal privatization law "requires Japan to implement measures to ensure equivalent conditions of competition [between the privatized entities] and other companies engaged in like business organizations," coalition officials write in the letter. (thinkadvisor.com)

The Zapatistas worried that a NAFTA-required constitutional amendment, which permitted the privatization of ejidos (communal lands), would lead to greater property concentration. (coha.org)

LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese green energy investments that require European Union funds and the privatisation of airline TAP are among the projects at risk of being derailed in the wake of Prime Minister Antonio Costa's resignation, experts said on Wednesday. (yahoo.com)

I've found little evidence that privatization was cost-effective. (justicestrategies.org)

Privatisation will raise the price people will have to pay for products and services. (marxist.com)

While one can appreciate how opponents to privatization feel about the issue, that report shows that the library is currently being mismanaged. (the-digital-reader.com)

[iii] Today's opponents of education reform fear that new teacher evaluation requirements threaten the jobs of indigenous instructors, who are vital to communities in which many parents do not speak Spanish. (coha.org)

If we want to know whether privatization is delivering cost savings, there's not any information out there to give us that conclusion," Pranis said. (justicestrategies.org)

Until a few years ago, there was a widespread perception that the proponents of privatisation had largely won this argument, and that nationalisation-vs-privatisation debates were not really a thing anymore. (iea.org.uk)
A privatization argument certainly implies students leave the public schools for private schools. (johnlocke.org)

The Tuberville campaign rejected the privatization label and said he never got so specific. (politifact.com)
Sen. Dabakis said it would cost millions to gather signatures and mount a campaign for liquor privatization, but he pointed to the success of a ballot initiative in Washington state. (fox13now.com)

www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/history-of-commercial-fisheries. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)

Leading figures, including the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have called the privatization program "an economic revolution. (merip.org)
The agency that is starting to convert the Kampo Japanese life insurance program into a private company should take another look at Japan's postal privatization laws, according to 8 North American and European trade groups. (thinkadvisor.com)

That 87 minute long video is filled with Trish Gilbert actively speaking out in favor of Privatization at the well respected Brookings Institute about a month ago. (jetcareers.com)
The Libertas Institute, a Libertarian-leaning think tank based in Lehi, said it has also considered pushing for a ballot initiative on alcohol privatization. (fox13now.com)

Almost every Indian family has invested their money in the state-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), which is earmarked for privatisation. (marxist.com)
Opponents, including Delta Air Lines, say the U.S. system is so large that privatization would not save money, and would drive up ticket costs and could create a national security risk. (newsmax.com)

The tension between public ownership and privatization of our water resources is enormous," said Cheryl King Fisher, executive director of the Vermont-based New England Grassroots Environmental Fund . (ecori.org)
Opponents of water privatization also have problems with companies profiting from water, which they argue is a public resource. (ecori.org)
Privatization of water services, however, has been attempted from coast to coast. (ecori.org)

One of the most powerful opponents would be The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which has said Utah liquor laws are fine the way they are. (fox13now.com)

You know a country has gotten really serious about downsizing the state when one of its most popular plays is about privatization. (reason.com)
Opponents of the ruling party denounce the way it uses state resources, including public TV, to demonize its opponents, particularly Tusk, who was an anti-communist activist before the fall of communism in Poland and who portrays himself as a Polish patriot. (wkbn.com)

The current wave of privatization of industrial and financial institutions is framed as the technocratic rationalization of a hopelessly deadlocked economy. (merip.org)

Pécresse urged all students to attend meetings en masse to prevent a minority of left-wingers taking control of events. (universityworldnews.com)

T]he privatization movement - charters and vouchers - is moving forward full speed ahead, defunding public schools, using test scores to say public schools aren't good enough. (johnlocke.org)

Only the Airlines and their Proxy groups (A4A, Citizens for On Time Flights) are backing Privatization. (jetcareers.com)

Officials at the groups write about Kampo privatization in a letter sent to Japan's Postal Privatization Commission. (thinkadvisor.com)

Still not convinced Privatization is a bad idea? (jetcareers.com)
Its distaste for a postal bailout merges ideological conservatives' generic preference for postal privatization with the president's hang-up about the idea that the USPS is giving Amazon a sweetheart deal on shipping . (vox.com)

Instead of arguing for the privatization of schools, a position that might have made him feel good but would have done no public good, he advocated vouchers, so that parents could choose among competing public and private institutions. (city-journal.org)

Daniels said they were worried that putting liquor privatization on the same ballot as medical cannabis could hurt both causes. (fox13now.com)

Some 90,000 bank workers protested earlier this year against mergers and privatisation. (marxist.com)

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