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I`ve written about faux `privatization` before, which typically entails renting out government work to contractors who are said to be cheaper and more efficient. Private prisons are a major example of this. So are mercenary outfits like Blackwater (the media often just calls these guys `private contractors`). In any case, there [...]
The U.S. keeps replacing its full-time workers with contract employees.
The government paid billions of dollars more to hire contractors than it would have cost federal employees to perform comparable services, according to the study.
A new study finds that privatization of government services “contributes to the decline of the middle class and the rise in poverty-level jobs, thereby exacerbating growing economic inequality.”
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