The U.S. prison population has grown more than 700 percent between 1970 and 2009. We’re locking people up left and right, including thousands of non-violent immigrants...
We already know that reckless outsourcing has negative impacts on the local community. But did you know it can also contribute to climate change? In a...
Inequality. You’re probably hearing this word everywhere, and rightly so. In the U.S. today, the top one percent own about 38 percent of the financial wealth...
Charter schools that receive public money should be held to the same standards as traditional public schools. That’s just common sense. Unfortunately, many charter schools throughout the...
Public servants play important roles in nearly everything we do, but very often they go unnoticed. From food inspectors who keep our...
Large corporate lobbies have, in recent years, accelerated their push to expand private charter schools. America spends nearly three quarters of a trillion dollars on public...
We’re excited to announce the creation of In The Public Interest’s ITPI Scholars Network as the next step in our growth and expanding influence on the...
In most of the country the weather is finally getting warmer and the imagery of baby chickens and pastel eggs surround us – but yellow fuzzy...
As the saying goes, it takes a village. And when corporations spend vast resources to gain control of public services, it takes a village of smart,...
If you’ve ever had to remodel or make major repairs on your home, then you know hiring the right contractor and constant oversight is key to...
We all know the political shorthand: “red” states vote conservative while “blue” states vote progressive. But these days the deep red hue of Idaho, Arizona and...
When future taxpayers look back to the moment they started taking back control of their schools, roads and services, they will look to 2013. From coast...
For generations, Americans have relied on public service workers to inspect the food we eat. In fact, one major concern of the recent government shutdown was that food...
Across the nation, private companies are looking to take over public services. A legislative battle in Sacramento over a bill to privatize state trial courts epitomizes...
Today In the Public Interest released a report titled Criminal: How Lockup Quotas and “Low-Crime Taxes” Guarantee Profits for Private Prison Corporations. The study documents the...
DealBook recently published a piece by Kent Rowey that makes a troubling argument for selling public services and infrastructure to Wall Street banks and other corporations....
The minimum wage is back on the rise. Last month Sen. Tom Harkin and Rep. George Miller introduced the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013, which...
In February 2005, Patti Phillips sat by her daughter’s bedside during the weeks before Stephanie Phillips died of bone cancer. Patti was able to be at...
(This opinion piece first appeared in today’s Los Angeles Times.) The U.S. economy has turned a corner. The national unemployment rate hit a post-recession low of...
Fifteen people have died and several hundred have been infected in an outbreak of meningitis contracted from contaminated spinal steroid injections. The numbers are growing and...