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Chicago recently made headlines for turning public parks space over to Amazon package lockers. But those lockers are only one example of Amazon and public officials using public-private “partnerships” to give away public resources and harm communities ...[Read more]
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One of the UK’s biggest GP practice operators has quietly passed into the hands of the US health insurance group Centene Corporation, prompting calls for an official investigation into what campaigners claim is “privatisation of the NHS by stealth”. ...[Read more]
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Water became a commodity traded on Wall Street in December amid fear of scarcity, and now oxygen is being speculated on in Mexico.
With most hospitals full, many Mexicans are battling COVID-19 at home. Oxygen tanks and oxygen concentrators (devices that ...[Read more]
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The plan’s private partnership model will pour public funds into corporate coffers.
President Trump’s new plan just orders everything on the menu, leaves after a few bites, and sticks taxpayers with the bill. Not only does his 50-page plan offer no ne ...[Read more]
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The British chancellor faces a storm of criticism after claiming that disabled people are partially responsible for the country’s low production efficiency.
Facing a question brought up by the Treasury Select Committee about low productivity levels in t ...[Read more]
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More than a million children could go hungry in England this summer, according to Labour and charity bosses.
The party says those that are eligible for free school meals will miss out over the six-week holiday, and nearly four million more whose families ...[Read more]
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UK - Hero ambulance workers are revealed today as the hardest-hit of any major public sector group by the Tories’ brutal attack on pay.
A damning study by the TUC shows paramedics have seen their annual pay cut by a staggering £6,140 since 2010 in real ...[Read more]
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