by Erik Kain on September 16, 2011
Matt Yglesias posts a chart showing the ratio of public to private sector workers in the United States: He writes: By this metric, the era of big government came to an end long before Bill Clinton appeared on the scene. In parallel to this, however, we’ve seen the rise of a para-government. That’s not just [...]
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by Erik Kain on September 1, 2011
Tim Murphy digs into the big business of the private prison industry over at Mother Jones. He zeroes in on Rick Perry who took steps to help close the state’s $27 billion deficit last year by pushing for the privatization of the Texas prison healthcare network: Private prisons are a big business in Texas, where [...]
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